The furtherance of motivation in the context of teaching software engineering

Lack of motivation can cause a strong discrepancy between potential and success in learning with individuals. This explains why highly skilled students show poor performance under the same dispositions while one can find averagely gifted among the best of the group. It is hardly possible to attain good achievements without motivation. We put a strong focus at this question and try to clear the role of motivation for academic learning in software engineering and elaborate on the teachers´ influence on increasing the success in student learning.