Past Teaching Practice-based Research

2021T-J Alliance Symposium ”Regional Revitalization” by Higher Education

"Regional Revitalization" is one of key policy in Taiwanese and Japanese which aim of resolving many kind of the problems facing both countries, including population decline, an aging population combined with a low birth rate, and declining regional economies. In this seminar, we discuss the role of higher education for its promotion.

Using ARCS as the study framework to analyze college students’ learning motivation towards participating in local area development, and the end results of their participation.

The Center for General Education course: “Local Studies: Economics & Industry” was the base for this applied study research. It used scholar John Keller’s (1983) ARCS Model (Attention, Relation, Confidence, and Satisfaction) to detect and elevate college student’s learning motivation and their participation results. The study research was then applied to strategies for course design.