Author(s)

Qiupu Jiang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing, 400715, China

Corresponding Author

Qiupu Jiang

ABSTRACT

Based on a case study on a Chinese university that need to finish the compulsory course Chinese to English Translation online due to Covid-19, the research aims to determine the challenges and measures in an online course in China during the pandemic. In this paper, the author is trying to find how to improve students’ learning motivation in post-epidemic era. The author points out that, due to the Covid-19, online teaching and learning have become the prevalent form of education. Besides, the rapid development of Internet and technology contributes to the adopting of online learning. In a case study, the author found that students' intrinsic motivation would be negatively influenced because the traditional strategies for improving intrinsic motivation are valid. For example, students in the online course lack interaction with teachers and their peers, which will influence students' learning and production process. Meanwhile, weakened self-regulation also calls for improvement of students' intrinsic motivation. In order to stimulate intrinsic motivation in the online learning context, the author proposed some active measures: first, presenting teachers' enthusiasm; second, providing more interaction opportunities, for example, imported workshop into Chinese class; third, developing subject-related interest in the classroom, such as, a) pre-lecture "hands-on" tasks, and b) utilising videos and pictures.

KEYWORDS

Online teaching, COVID-19, intrinsic motivation

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiupu Jiang, Beyond "Face to Face": A Discussion on Intrinsic Motivation in Online Courses. Adult and Higher Education (2023) Vol. 5: 58-62. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2023.050709.

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