Responsability for learning does not only depend on the student or on the teacher; the responsability for learning must be shared. The author Wiley, J. and sons. (2013) mentioned in their book Learner-centered teaching: five key changes to practice, that motivation is one very important factor that can increase the need for learning only in some students. According to the same author in the already mentioned book, in order to improve student's learning, teacher should have them busy and in active process, which means, doing any kind of activities that can make students participate most of the time, even thought the mistakes that those students could make during the learning-process. We may also read the book Model of experiential learning published by David Kolb (1984), in which this author states that we, as teachers, can make our students to learn by having them to do something where they participate, to think about what they did, and to research or find information of the work the students did.
As I mentioned before, the responsability for learning is not only depending on the teacher, but it also depends on the students. The teacher must find the correct motivation in order to enhance student's learning, but students have to take their part of the responsability at the moment to learn. To talk about motivation, I will include the example of the grades. Grades are a factor that pushes students not to fail a level, but students are not pushed to learn, and as teacher, I have to find a motivating factor that influences students to learn the content. It is because of that reason that I mentiond that motivation is important in the responsability for learning.
References:
Wiley, J. (2013) Learner - centered teaching: five key changes to practice.
Kolb, D. (1984) Model of experiential learing.
Karban, R. (2015) Plant learning and memory.
http://www.dynamicflight.com/avcfibook/learning_process/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning
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