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Motivational Processes

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2011)

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A motivationally intelligent tutor should determine the motivational state of the learner and also determine what caused that state. Only if the causation is taken into account can an efficient pedagogic strategy be selected to find an effective way to maintain or improve the learner’s motivation. Thus we argue that motivation is more constructively thought of as a process involving causation rather than simply as a state. We describe methods by which this causality might be determined and suggest a range of pedagogic tactics that might be deployed as part of an overall pedagogic strategy.

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    Benedict du Boulay

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    Gautam Biswas

  2. Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K.

    Susan Bull

  3. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, 1 Cleveland Street, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

  4. College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

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du Boulay, B. (2011). Motivational Processes. In: Biswas, G., Bull, S., Kay, J., Mitrovic, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21869-9_10

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