Effects of Maker Education Integrating ARCS on Learners' Performance, Motivation, Self-Efficacy

Maker Movements And Maker Education

The maker movements can provide a good opportunity to develop interest, personalize, and cross-domain knowledge (Martin, 2015). Learners can play different roles in participating in the production, such as scientists, mathematicians, designers, or makers, which helps teachers guide them to use existing knowledge, skills, and practices to solve problems (Martin, 2015). From the perspective of constructivism (such as Piaget), these provide learners with an opportunity to construct knowledge by developing mental representations and solving real problems. In this environment where creation and learning take place, learners collaborate or independently design to create their own projects and complete designs. Simply put, maker activities can help learners develop content knowledge and have great potential for innovation, design, understanding, and collaboration (Papavlasopoulou, Giannakos, & Jaccheri, 2017).