Motivation and emotion
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Getting started
Welcome aboard the good ship "motivation and emotion"!
Congratulations on taking the first step 
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Here's how to get started:
- Get an overview:
- Enrol in
- the unit
- a tutorial
- Check the timetable (for lectures and tutorials) and put the schedule in your calendar
- Materials - get access to:
- The textbook
- An audio headset (with headphones and microphone) is recommended for:
- recording the multimedia presentation assessment exercise
- participating in online virtual tutorials
- Assessment
- Check out the assessment and note the due dates
- Learn about Wikiversity and how to use it
- Create a Wikiversity account - choose a user name appropriate to your privacy requirements (can be based on your real name or a pseudonym).
- Practice editing in a sandbox.
- Describe a little about yourself and areas of interest on your Wikiversity user page.
- More information about using Wikiversity will be provided during lectures and tutorials (e.g., see Tutorial 01, but you can also teach yourself by exploring and experimenting). For more info, see Wikiversity - Help.
- Browse the previous book chapter topics. Think about what chapter topic you would like to contribute to the current book chapter table of contents.
- Discuss with others via:
- UCLearn Discussion
- Wikiversity talk pages
- #emot21 hashtag on Twitter
- For more assistance, see support
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This page overviews the motivation and emotion assessment items, weight, and due dates.
As a Level 3, final semester unit, the major project (topic development, book chapter, multimedia presentation) provides a scaffolded "capstone" experience, allowing students to bring together and demonstrate their knowledge and skills to produce useful real-world resources. Consider adding this work to your e-portfolio.
Click the assessment item names in the table below for detailed guidelines.
| Item | Weight | Due | Description | Expected time involved (total 150 hours) |
| Topic development | 5% | Week 05 Mon 9am 30 Aug 2021 | This early assessment exercise builds skills needed for the Book Chapter assessment exercise by developing a plan for the chapter and getting feedback. To do this: Register a Wikiversity account, sign up to an approved topic, create a Wikiversity user page, share a chapter plan (consisting of headings and key points, including at least one relevant image), and provide feedback on the development of at least one another book chapter with this social contribution summarised on your Wikiversity user page. | 5 hours: 1 hour to learn "how", 2 hours research, 2 hours preparation. |
| Book chapter | 40% | Week 12 Mon 9am 18 Oct 2021 | Author an online book chapter up to 4,000 words about a unique motivation or emotion topic. Topics must be approved by the unit convener. Includes a social contribution component. | 45 hours: 7 hours to learn "how", 18 hours research, 20 hours preparation. |
| Multimedia | 20% | Week 14 Mon 9am 1 Nov 2021 | Record and share an online multimedia presentation up to 3 minutes long about a unique, specific motivation or emotion topic, focusing on key problem(s) and answer(s) provided by psychological science. Address the same topic as covered in the book chapter. | 10 hours: 2 hours to learn "how", 6 hours preparation, 2 hours to record & finalise. |
| Quizzes | 35% | Week 15 Mon 9am 8 Nov 2021 | 17 equally-weighted 10-item, 10-minute, multiple-choice, online quizzes. One quiz per textbook chapter. | 90 hours: 24 hours lectures (12 x 2 hours each), 12 hours tutorials (12 x 1 hour each), 51 hours reading (17 chapters x 3 hours each), 3 hours completing the quizzes (17 x 10 mins each). |
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Understanding and improving our motivational and emotional lives
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Why do we do
what we do? |
 Motivation and Emotion |
Why do we feel
the way we feel? |
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