Academic Motivation Within COVID-19 Isolation

Abstract

Education community has once again understood how important open and distance learning applications are, as education is limited to the home with the effect of the global pandemic. In fact, some institutions, which have been planning to take steps towards digitalization, suddenly had to switch to emergency remote teaching applications with the effect of the pandemic. The most important factor in turning this situation into an advantage is that motivation, volition, and engagement are included in the theoretical applications. In the transition from theory to practice, there might be some factors caused by the pandemic, such as internet access problems, long-term social isolation, anxiety, or lack of motivation towards online learning. When evaluated within the aforementioned contexts, the central objective of this chapter is to focus on currently existing academic motivational problems and to discuss approaches, learning methods, and educational models that can be applied throughout the COVID-19 isolation.