Points to Look for:

• Motivation (Extrinsic & Intrinsic)
• Self-Efficacy
• Metacognition

Introduction

Quite recently, I found myself playing a video game called…

Are you tired of studying? Are you spending more time playing video games like Escape from Tarkov, Overwatch, Fortnite, Candy Crush, and Among Us? Well, games provide us with something that studying alone does not do—excite us to keep playing! We get excited to beat a level and move onto the next one. We feel accomplishment by defeating the big boss at the end level within a chapter or world. We go out of our way…

Do your eyes feel tired? Do they feel dry? Have you struggled to keep your eyes open during online courses? In our current situation (history in the making), screen fatigue is a side effect to our remote learning environment. While we used to take pleasure in binge-watching our favorite shows on TV or scrolling endlessly through social media, we now attend synchronous courses and complete all asynchronous assignments on our…

1. Use google calendar to keep track of your meeting times

• If your courses are using webex, you will receive a link to use for each of your meetings.
• To keep track of these links, try making an event for when you have to attend class, a tutoring session, etc. and pasting the link under the description of the…

• Do some detective work on your exam. Here are some questions to consider:
  • Do I have to take this test at a certain date and time, or can I do it whenever I want within a time frame? Do NOT assume that just because your test is online that it is asynchronous. …