A helpful principle to keep in mind and to ensure that your course or project is designed with quality and effectiveness at its center is CRAP, which stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. See the graphic I created (Left) and more to help understand other design and learning science principles.
It is important to note that not every form of motivation is the same. There is extrinsic or external motivation, like the Covid-19 Pandemic that prompted many instructors to learn how to teach remotely. There is also the intrinsic or internal motivation like Professor Jason Haffner’s research and innovation “with online delivery in [Rice’s] non-credit offerings before the pandemic” (Fitzgerald, 2022). Most instructional design and HPI practitioners consider intrinsic motivation to be more powerful in engaging a learner because...Read more