by Jarrett Carter, Education Dive
The Chronicle asks the question about the ability of distance learning to bring out emotional wonderment from students, a notion that University of North Carolina – Greensboro psychology professor Paul Silvia says is an essential part of the learning process. According to Silvia, surprise, interest, confusion and awe are the key tenets by which students are inspired to challenge personal and social norms, all of which transform students’ engagement with information and course concepts. Several surveys indicate that human interaction with concepts showing nature or science elicits a feeling of perspective in students, which activates a sense of wanting to be a more meaningful part of a world bigger than themselves.
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