{"id":695,"date":"2017-07-31T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/?p=695"},"modified":"2017-07-31T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:42:52","slug":"educational-conundrum-of-the-week-the-seductive-gold-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/2017\/07\/31\/educational-conundrum-of-the-week-the-seductive-gold-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Conundrum of the Week &#8211; The Seductive Gold Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most instructors have come to the realization that participation wains at a course\u2019s midway point and takes some time to recover. How can we minimize this drop in motivation? A colleague, I won\u2019t mention Carl by name, said that he is motivated by badges (or \u201cachievements\u201d in Blackboard), both in class and online. What are some ways you motivate your in-class or online students?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most instructors have come to the realization that participation wains at a course\u2019s midway point and takes some time to recover. How can we minimize this drop in motivation? A colleague, I won\u2019t mention Carl by name, said that he is motivated by badges (or \u201cachievements\u201d in Blackboard), both in class and online. What are &#8230; <a title=\"Educational Conundrum of the Week &#8211; The Seductive Gold Star\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/2017\/07\/31\/educational-conundrum-of-the-week-the-seductive-gold-star\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}