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work_5x62x5ffq5dixe7cyqgeyfurme	Jason Bond Huett	Improving the Motivation and Retention of Online Students Through the Use of ARCS-Based E-Mails	2008	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7062	618	57	messages designed to improve the motivation and retention of students enrolled in an Numerous scholars highlight the general lack of research concerning the motivational needs of online learners (Astleitner and Keller 1995; Gabrielle 2003; Distance education environments clearly allow for new and unique challenges for instructors and designers who wish to motivate online students and, Studies of ARCSenhanced instructional materials have returned inconsistent results on the individual subsections as well as on the overall measure of learner motivation and Keller (1990) delivered ARCS-based motivational messages to students statistically significant differences between the control group and the treatment group in terms of learner retention based on completion rates of students for the course? design, planned orthogonal contrasts were established to determine (a) if motivation, as measured by Keller's ARCS model via the CIS, is statistically different between students given motivational e-mails and those who did not and	./cache/work_5x62x5ffq5dixe7cyqgeyfurme.pdf	./txt/work_5x62x5ffq5dixe7cyqgeyfurme.txt