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WE HAVE POSITED that student engagement is a product of motivation and active learning; in this section, our focus is on the motivation factor of the model. What is motivation and how does motivation work in the college classroom as an essential factor of student engagement? While these are important questions that many college teachers grapple with, unfortunately there's not an easy answer. There are, however, several different theories about what motivates individuals and how motivation happens. Understanding these theories broadly can help to inform our understanding of how to motivate students and ultimately engage them in their learning. We now turn our attention to unpacking the concept of motivation.