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    1. Mona Younes E-Training Consultant at IslamOnline.net May, 2007 Using ARCS Model to motivate Adult Arab Learners in an online setting Case study
    2. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • The Educational Scene
    3. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • How many of you have visited an Arab country before?
      • How many of you have any teaching experience with Arab Learners?
      • How many internet users do you think are there in the Arab world?
      • What is the percentage of Arabic speaking population?
    4.  
    5. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • The Arab World consists of 23 countries with a combined population of some 325 million people, 26.3 million of them (8%) are regular internet users . This figure is poised to double to 50 million by 2009, according to Eric Schmidt, Google Chief.
      • Arabic speakers worldwide represent 5% of the world's population but only 2% of its Internet users.
      • Internet usage rates increased to 8.50%, compared to 5.36% in 2004.
    6. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • No data could be found related to internet usage within the educational sector in the Arab region.
      • IN the year 2001:
      Total of 100.000 PCs installed in Arab educational institutions 16 million in the USA 2 million in Japan 1 million in Germany
    7. The E-Learning Market…
    8. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • The E-learning market in the Gulf region:
      • IN 2004 $ 72 million
      • raising at 27 % compound average rate
      • by the end of 2009 $ 240 million
    9.  
    10. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Obstacles:
      • What do you think are the obstacles towards the active and constructive engagement of learners in online learning?
    11. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • One of the major obstacles was motivation… to motivate the learners in a non-formal online setting to engage interactively and constructively….
      • What is motivation?
    12. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Motivation
      • Motivation deals with the question "Why do people do what they do“.
      • Learners' motivation describes the learners' willingness, need, desire and compulsion to participate in, and be successful in, the learning process"
    13. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Why is Motivation in an online setting especially important?
    14. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Contrary to conventional education, in distance education, motivation problems go undetected and the student is mostly left without any outside help.
      • Motivation of students and finding incentives to participate actively, was seen by Mason( 2001) as one of the most central keys to online teaching.
      • Kelvin Kruse (n.d.) saw a direct correlation between success in any e-learning initiative and motivation
    15. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Keller invented in 1983 a simple, yet powerful four-factor theory explaining motivation called the ARCS Model:
      • A - Attention strategies for arousing and sustaining curiosity and interest;
      • R - Relevance strategies that link to learners' needs, interests, and motives;
      • C - Confidence strategies that help students develop a positive expectation for successful achievement;
      • S - Satisfaction strategies that provide extrinsic and intrinsic reinforcement for effort.
    16. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Case Study
    17. A Bilingual Portal with a special focus on social issues In 2005: (acc. To Alexa) # 1 : Spiritual & Religious Site # 1: Islamic Website
    18. A need to serve a very diverse audience Counseling pages: Arabic and English A better understanding of differences stemming from the religious, cultural, and intellectual heritage of the audience. First hand information about audience needs Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
    19. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners Five Year Experience: The audience needed more than a good listening ear, and advising mouth; they needed a real helping hand providing them with skills and knowledge.
    20. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • LMS MOODLE
      • Specification Life Skills
      • Instructors SMEs
      • Mode 100% online
      • Type Interactive
      • Ed. Theory Social Constructivism
    21. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • The Survey
    22. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Post Course Interview:
      • Parental Course ( total enrolled 87, final no. 40)
      • 80% rated the course as excellent/v. good.
      • Survey Sample: 5 males and 2 females.
      • When did you feel most motivated during the course? Why do you think you felt this way? What effected your motivation ( positively and negatively)?
    23. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • 80% : Rapid and timely feedback and frequent
      • communication on the board
      • 42% : Provocative postings
      • 42% : Having a highly active group of learners (made 'interaction' like an inevitable virus)
      • ATTENTION
    24. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • 70% :Content was very much related to authentic situations, dealing with practical and every day issues and dilemmas.
      • 42% :Skill-oriented content and instruction.
      • 42% :Opening Open Forums for socialization
      • Relevance
    25. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • 57% :Supportive and very encouraging tone.
      • 42% :Personal Introductions (even if anonymous)
      • 42% :Friendly and safe environment (anonymity allowed)
      • 28% :Heterogeneous groups, culturally diverse, with a 14% :Credibility and expertise of trainers
      • 14% :Catering for cultural understanding
      • Confidence
    26. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • 100% :Frequent, timely, positive, supportive and
      • encouraging communication. (Family-like
      • environment)
      • 58% :Warm welcoming messages on the personal
      • introduction forum.
      • 71% :Meeting others with same problems and issues
      • 71% :Chances for socialization and further networking.
      • 14% :Reminding emails, which avoided their usual
      • attitude of ‘lurking
      • Satisfaction
    27. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • A Best Practice List can be found on the forum
      • Future Plans
      • To survey what worked and what didn’t in an online
      • Collaborative project
      • ( A course about Multi- Intelligence for Teachers)
    28. Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
      • Mona Younes
      • [email_address]
      • http://www.monay.net
      • Skype: monayegy1964

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