{"id":1027,"date":"2006-11-30T03:15:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/learner-motivation-and-disposition-part-of-the-code\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:58","slug":"learner-motivation-and-disposition-part-of-the-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/learner-motivation-and-disposition-part-of-the-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Learner Motivation and Disposition: Part of the code?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old blog has been silent lately. It is because I am stuck &#8211; driven to distraction, so to speak. Looking back at recent blog posts, I see that I am clearly trying to crack a shared code within seemingly separate and distinct learning and instructional theories. After reading and hearing my ramblings about dynamic, personalized, <span>coproduced<\/span>, blah, blah, blah learning and instruction, a few people have raised the possibility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/rhizomatic-dynamic-agile-coproducing-blah-blah\/\">that these learning and instructional approaches<\/a> will only work for motivated self-starters &#8211; you know, the traditional &quot;early adopters&quot;. If so, then the learner&#39;s disposition and level of motivation determine whether a less structured and more learner driven instructional model will &quot;work&quot;? Are these factors really part of the code? <\/p>\n<p>I tend to gravitate toward the self-starter \/ early adopter end of the spectrum myself. The &quot;instruction&quot; that works best for my own learning involves: 1) discovering (on my own or with the help of others) tools and resources, 2) getting time to try, break \/ fix stuff on my own (a sandbox) and 3) receiving a nudge from those who have been there \/ done that when I get stuck. However, does this approach only work for the self-starters \/ early adopters who are already highly motivated to give it a go? Also, if learning or performance improvement occurs, is it due to anything you would typically consider to be &quot;instruction&quot;? <\/p>\n<p>  <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learning\">learning<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/instructional%20design\">instructional design<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old blog has been silent lately. It is because I am stuck &#8211; driven to distraction, so to speak. Looking back at recent blog posts, I see that I am clearly trying to crack a shared code within seemingly separate and distinct learning and instructional theories. After reading and hearing my ramblings about dynamic,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-learning-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}