%0 Journal Article %T Lessons in Student Motivation %A Errol Craig Sull %J InSight : A Journal of Scholarly Teaching %D 2007 %I Park University %X The tools students have at their ready to do well are really amazing: engaging, thorough, and colorful textbooks; the Internet, of course; faculty who know how to teach and offer a plethora of information; and seemingly endless possibilities for optimal learning environments. Yet with all these improved ˇ°mousetrapsˇ± there is one factor that, if missing, will keep each of these silent ¨C and the student will learn little or naught: motivation. Indeed, if the student is not motivated to learn, and his or her motivation is not kept up throughout a course, there is little the student will take away from the course. %K student motivation %K higher education %U http://www.insightjournal.net/Volume2/Lessons%20in%20Student%20Motivation.pdf