Motivation To Learn

Involvement of students in the learning process while encouraged by the efforts to meet the desires held by students in learning and varied levels. Student desires is owned motivation.

motivation is defined as efforts that encourage someone to do something or can also be regarded as the driving force of the subject to perform certain activities and achieve goals.

Term motivation is used a lot in various fields and situations, but in this paper is more focused on motivation in education, especially in teaching and learning activities.

In teaching and learning activities, known presence of motivation to learn, which is determined motivation in learning activities, so the motivation to learn is the whole idea and the driving force in the student learning activities that give rise, ensuring continuity of learning for the sake of achieving a goal.

Along with understanding the motivation to learn the above, that motivating students is to create conditions such that the child will do what it can do. While the definition of motivation as a conscious effort by the teacher to pose motivation on a self-supporting activities of the students towards learning goals.

From the description above, it can be concluded that a person can act if there is a will in which manifested itself in concrete deeds, besides that it possessed a willingness to be developed from the outside to be able to do something in order to achieve goals.

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Type and Purpose of Education

Academic education consisting of undergraduate, master degree, and doctoral programs that aim to prepare students to become members of the public who have the academic ability to implement, develop, and enrich science, technology and art, as well as disseminating and sought the use technology and art to improve people’s lives and enrich the national culture.

Professional education program consisting of Diploma III, IV and diploma, aims to prepare students to be members of the public who have the ability to apply professional in develop, and disseminate technology and the use of art and trying to improve people’s lives and enrich the national culture.

Professional Education is additional education after undergraduate education to gain expertise and professional designation in a particular fieldSemester is a unit of work activity time 16 to 19 weeks of classes or other scheduled activities, the following side activity, including 2 to 3 weeks of assessment activities.

Semester Credit System is a measure of respect for the learning experience gained during a semester through scheduled activities per week for 1 hour or 2 hour lab lecture, or 4 hours of field work, each accompanied by about 1-2 hours of structured activities and about 1 – 2 hours of independent activity.

Semester Credit System (SKS) is setting up a system of education by using the semester credit units to express the study load of students, faculty workload, learning experience, and the burden of program operations. This system allows students to plan their education according to interests and abilities. For this plan students are required to fill Card Study Plan (KRS) set by the leaders of the Faculty.

 

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Tips to Stay Focused While Studying

When you’re studying, everything else seems so much more interesting, even just staring at the wall, isn’t it? First of all make up your mind that you’re going to study hard and score good marks. After you’ve decided, there are a million distractions to deal with. Your roommate who listens to music on her I-Pod, so loud, the next room can hear; the constant updates on Facebook; the rerun of your favorite TV shows and so on. There are many things that occupy your mind, particularly when you sit down to study. The trick lies in avoiding distractions effectively and keeping yourself motivated to continue studying.

Tips to Stay Focused While Studying

The list of distractions are endless and different for everyone. However, you can deal with them effectively by adopting a disciplined approach and some practical strategies mentioned below, read on.

Choose a Quiet and Comfortable Place
Study at a place, where you feel most comfortable. For most people, home is the best place, but if there are too many people at your home, go elsewhere. Libraries are a good place to study, you can use the study rooms that they have. Also most college campuses have devoted study rooms, make use of these facilities. Read the rest of this entry »

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