The effects of the motivational strategies on learners' interest, motivation, volition, and achievement in distance education

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of interventions based on Keller's ARCS-V motivational design model on learners' course interest, motivation, volition, and achievement in online distance courses. The experimental research was conducted during one semester over a period of eleven weeks with 122 undergraduate online learners. The results indicated that the treatment group learners who received motivation strategies had higher course interest, motivation, and achievement than the control group learners. The research results also revealed that the treatment group had significantly higher attention scores than the control group on course interest survey. Even though the treatment group had higher scores on relevance, confidence and satisfaction subscales, the differences were not significant. However, the treatment group had statistically significant higher motivation scores than the control group in terms of attention, confidence, and satisfaction subsections on instructional materials motivation scale. Further, although the treatment group had higher scores on relevance, the difference was not statistically significant. Nonetheless, there were no statistically significant differences for the volition. Results of the current study support the ARCS-V motivational design model research by asserting the model as a valid and practical model for online distance learning environments. Based on the research findings suggestions for future research are presented. Keywords: Distance education, Motivation, ARCS-V motivation design, ARCS