Motivation and emotion/Book/Overview
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This project provides 1500+ student-developed open educational resources about how motivation and emotion can be used to improve our lives. The student-produced work is developed and shared via Wikiversity, an open wiki platform supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. The students engaged in this learning and assessment exercise for the 3rd year undergraduate psychology unit, motivation and emotion, at the University of Canberra.
The book theme is:
How can we improve our motivational and emotional lives based on psychological science (theory and research)?
The project is distinguished by:
- being dynamic and constantly evolving
- creating open educational resources
- using open academic principles
- engaging students in collaborative authorship
- making 1500+ free, online chapters about specific motivation and emotion topics available
- each chapter is accompanied by a multimedia overview
For more information about how the project from an educational psychology perspective, see this paper:
Collaborative authoring using wiki.