What is Motivational Design?
What is meant by motivational design? What are some of the motivational concepts and theories that have a motivational design component?

What is the ARCS Model?


What are its overall characteristics? Is it a theory or just a model?

What Are the Elements of Learner Motivation?


The acronym ARCS stands for attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. What are the specific properties of each category?

What is the ARCS Motivational Design Process


What are the steps and key issues in the ARCS design process? To what kinds of problems can you apply it?

The ARCS model of motivational design consists of a set of categories of motivational concepts and strategies that are derived from a synthesis of the research on human motivation combined with a review of successful motivational practices. This portion of arcsmodel.com contains an overview of the general concept of motivational design and an explanation of what the ARCS model is. It also contains a summary of the four ARCS categories of motivation (attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction), each of which has several subcategories of concepts and strategies. These categories comprise one of the two major components of the ARCS model. The other component is the systematic motivational design process which is described in the remaining subfile on this page.