Starting to learn about education

I've been thinking about how to effectively teach and how to structure information the best way that I can.

Some things that I've noticed

• It is better to be an intrinsically motivate learner, you learn more.
• Inclusive design is important to maximize the number of people effected by the learning experience.

Side-note: I'm currently reading something by Julie Dirksen called ,"Design for how people learn."

Can we treat the process of converting an extrinsically motivated person to an intrinsically motivated person using the funnel idea from marketing? To rephrase this in another way, I'm asking if we can define the actions we take in a designing/making course as contributing to making people more intrinsically motivated?

Ideally the sooner they become one the better. A question that we can ask is ,"What is the minimum overhead needed to get someone to convert to being an intrinsically motivated learner?"

My knee jerk response is to focus on the practical as soon as possible, and then move to more conceptual once people have mental models that they can use for their own particular problems. So, introduce an idea/concept, describe examples using said idea/concept (the hook for extrinsically motivated people), and then move to more conceptual things that would further develop prior mental models. This way they can be mentally putting their own puzzles together of something that they care about, instead of just trying to memorize information.

In attempting to be inclusive, how can we create experiences that enable experienced/experts to learn as well as beginners? I think you can only try to minimize the amount that you annoy someone who is an expert at something. This is where you can set clear expectations of the chapter/lesson, and give them the ability to determine the different segmentation's of the lesson are at.

An example this would look like would be to create a bullet point list of expectations of outcomes for a chapter for example. Then to tie these expectations to headings, and from headings to subheadings so that someone experienced can skim to where they need to after thinking about what they need.

So far we have two tools to be able to interact with a range of users. That being the kind of content (practical/conceptual), and clear information breakdown/expectations.

A brief aside on intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. It feels like all intrinsic motivation always has a little bit of extrinsic motivation, but not the other way around. Intrinsic motivation seems to be a measure of how far you are from an external reward. It begs the question of internalizing enjoyment in various topics from external factors. I think this could even be used to start looking at special interests in autism spectrum disorder even. I wonder if you could introduce something as extrinsic reward, and shift it to something intrinsically rewarding. What are the factors and limitations for that process if possible?