BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Ken Kiewra!   If you have been fortunate enough to view Ken Kiewra's February 2008 Webinar broadcast, Advisors Help Students SOAR to Academic Success: Selection, Organization, Association, and Regulation Learning Strategies are the Keys, you know we are in for an interesting, informative, innovative hour+ when Ken returns to follow up his discussion of how advisors can assist their advisees in developing optimized learning skills!

Academic success hinges on two factors, Ken contends - SKILL and WILL.  For greatest possible success, students need not only skills like the SOAR strategies he discussed in his initial presentation, but also the WILL (motivation) to learn and succeed. The difference between unmotivated and motivated students, Ken believes, can be described as DIFS—Desire, Intention, Focus, and Sustainment.  In this presentation, Ken will recap the skills needed to SOAR to success and introduce the DIFS components that generate the will or motivation to succeed.  Desire is fueled from inside or outside the student and articulated in goal statements. Intention involves generating a winning plan for success. Focus involves getting started, working hard, and countering obstacles that stand in the way of goal attainment. Sustainment involves attaining and maintaining goals through perseverance.

In this Webinar broadcast, Ken will discuss:

The SOAR learning system

The DIFS motivational system

Inside and outside desire

Goal statement

Planning for success

Focusing effort

Countering obstacles

Sustaining effort

Participants will learn how to:

Raise personal motivation

Motivate others

If you haven't viewed Ken's SOAR presentation yet and would like to do so before this broadcast, you may purchase it on CD on our Webinar on Disk webpage.