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=** It's never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot ** =

This wiki about motivation and active learning is the work of three Provincial Instructor Diploma students at Vancouver Community College and a requirement for the course PIDP 3250. In the following pages, you’ll find information about motivating adult learners, factors of motivation, strategies of motivation and theories of motivation; you can test your new-found knowledge with a game of motivational Jeopardy, scroll through the highlights of our wiki on the Q&A page or explore other wiki sites on motivation, useful links and our references. We hope you enjoy our wiki — now get up and get at ‘em!

What inspired me to move to Canada? What drove me to join the PIDP at VCC? What makes teaching enjoyable for me? And many other questions like these have led me to think about the motives behind the choices that we, as adults, make in life. PIDP3250 specifically and the Instructor Diploma in general has helped me find satisfactory answers to some of these questions. This is my second course so far and I hope to keep learning through this journey of introspection and retrospection into the field of adult learning. || I began my career in journalism as a reporter for the Canmore Leader and Banff Crag & Canyon newspapers. After moving to Smithers in 2006, my interest in First Nations culture inspired me to do a Master of Arts in Communication specializing in International and Intercultural Communication through Royal Roads University in Victoria. For my master's thesis, I examined media coverage of the Sacred Headwaters issue. Along with freelance writing and communications work, I currently teach English at Northwest Community College in Smithers. || I am living and working in the Middle East. I am employed by the College of the North Atlantic - Qatar as an Environmental Health and Occupational Health & Safety Instructor. I have been teaching here since 2007 while on leave of absence from the Province of New Brunswick. I have since retired with the province and now I am a full time instructor in Doha, Qatar. I plan to work in the Middle East for a few more years then retire in Ontario where a bought a cottage last summer near my home town of Norwood. I enjoy teaching adult students as well I love traveling and not shovelling that white stuff called snow. ||
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 * I moved to Canada as a skilled migrant in 2010. I have worked as a lecturer for five years with the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Guru Nanak Dev University, India. I have also worked as a radio and TV host in India. Currently, I am working with Red FM which is a Surrey based radio station that caters to the infotainment needs of a versatile South Asian community residing in Vancouver and surrounding regions. I enjoy teaching and have often wondered on some questions like: