Student Motivation in Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

In recent years, motivation has received noticeable research attention. Self-motivated students' online learning efforts can be influenced by their ability to control their thoughts, learning behaviour, and motivation. Studies indicate that motivation in online learning does not gain adequate attention. This chapter will contribute to fulfil the gap and offer prospects for online higher education in Bangladesh. It will highlight some detailed empirical findings regarding motivation in online learning of tertiary students of Bangladesh and its association with students' academic achievement. The chapter will also provide some suggestions based on existing experiences gained from continuing efforts in the pandemic for developing countries and low-resource settings like Bangladesh that will be helpful for teachers, researchers, and policymakers to redesign teaching-learning activities. From the suggestions of this chapter, even resource-constrained countries would get some ideas to identify appropriate online teaching-learning tools to re-organise and reuse their trivial resources.