Motivation på distans Lärares möjligheter att främja elevers motivation och koncentration i distansundervisning

Abstract

This qualitative study analyzes how teachers work with distance education that promotes students' motivation and concentration. The research questions are: 1) How do teachers in mathematics promote students' motivation and concentration in distance education? 2) What are the particular challenges and tools in distance education compared to on-site teaching? The questions are limited by what technical aids and methods that are available to use in distance education. From interviews of high school teachers and one university professor together with email contact with the owner of the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown, summaries and investigations are made of what can make it easier for students in distance education. In general, many high school teachers seem to struggle to teach as well as they did in person. Much is about the disappearance of the social context, both between teacher-student and student-student. The research literature on distance education seems to agree that it is difficult to maintain motivation in the same way as in teaching on site. However, it seems that there are methods that teachers can use that many of the informants in the study discovered to work. It is, for example, disciplinary measures that give an external influence to a drive in the students, but also charismatic efforts such as joking or "quibble" more to lighten the mood. It seems to require greater effort on the part of teachers to maintain students' concentration in distance education, among other things in the form of thinking more about their teaching approach in order to capture and maintain students' attention.