An additional incentive that was offered to students in order to enhance more active participation and commitment to course work was the opportunity to have their work selected to be permanently displayed in the newly constructed Science Building (Science Laboratory Center).
They highlighted the fact that the e-course was time consuming and required commitment to course deadlines.
But at colleges with a lengthy commitment to such courses, it is clear that the campus environment plays a significant role.
To make matters worse, in the face of vague evidence, we often escalate our commitment to existing courses of action, particularly when we have invested considerable time and money in them.
M. Keil and D. Robey, "Turning Around Troubled Software Projects: An Exploratory Study of the Deescalation of Commitment to Failing Courses of Action, Journal of Management Information Systems, volume 15, Spring 1999, pp. 63 87.
In some ways, people have to make a commitment to the course and the people who traditionally played during peak times at these courses are probably regulars".
Commitment to a course of action is important, but not if it's not a good course.
Of course we have millions of government buildings that need such energy retrofits so commitment to this course must be sustained beyond the next two years.
This statement of preference will not be treated as a binding commitment to any course of study and research.
In the absence of any guiding power, individuals are condemned to freedom (hence responsibility), forced to forge their own lives, however insecure and contingent these may be, and to give them meaning by commitment to a course of action.
So when you make a commitment, a public commitment, to a course of action with people whose opinion you care about, it's a lot harder to let it slip.
