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Motivating Students (Vanderbilt's teaching center provides this overview of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation and ways to create intrinsic motivation in students)
Motivating Students (overview and links to resources from Carleton)
Teaching Students How to Learn (from the American Psychological Association: how professors can help students find effective learning strategies)
Getting Students to Do the Reading (teaching them how to read in your discipline; structuring assignments to make reading more likely)
Ten Strategies for Getting Students to Take Responsibility for Their Learning (from College Teaching, campus or VPN access)
Eric Hobson from Georgie Southern provides practical suggestions in, Getting Students to Read: 14 Tips, an Idea Center paper
Why Students Don't Learn What We Think We Teach (a video from Cornell)
Coaching Students How to Study (video from UT)
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