Following the recent special issue in Frontiers in Psychology, entitled “The Role of Teacher
Interpersonal Variables in Students' Academic Engagement, Success, and Motivation,” …

Higher education plays an important role in providing people with skills for innovation, but a
number of important questions remain as to what kind of higher education teaching can be …

This study tested a conceptual model based on self-determination theory to examine how
university faculty members' motivation for teaching predicts their utilization of teaching best …

We explore and elaborate on four questions to inspire future research on faculty motivation.
The first question asks why we should be concerned with the motivations of higher …

The collective notion of teacher interpersonal behaviors is a well-grounded branch of
investigation in instructional communication theorizing and research. However, not much …

Achievement goal orientation has been studied within education for many years, but the
practical implications are frequently focused on K-12 students and classrooms and less …

A practical, classroom-oriented guide to best-practice teaching. Learning specialist Leslie
Hart once wrote that designing educational experiences without knowledge of the brain is …

Utilization of online instruction continues to increase at universities, placing more emphasis
on the exploration of issues related to adult graduate student engagement. This reflective …

Research on lecturers' achievement goals and their impact on professional learning in
higher education is a topic that has assumed importance in recent years. However, previous …

The current mixed-method study examined the emotions experienced by pretenure faculty
regarding teaching and research, specifically their emotion frequency, antecedents, and …