Motivation and emotion/Book/Overview

This collaborative authoring project consists of 1400+ student-developed online book chapters about motivation and emotion topics.

The theme of the book 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 1400 free, online chapters about specific motivation and emotion topics available
  • each chapter is accompanied by multimedia overviews

The student-produced work is developed and shared via Wikiversity, a public wiki platform supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. The students engaged in this learning and assessment exercise have done so as a learning and assessment exercise for the 3rd year undergraduate psychology unit, motivation and emotion, at the University of Canberra.

For more information about how the project works from a practical educational psychology perspective, see this paper:
Collaborative authoring using wiki.

Also of interest may be the:
2021 book chapter highlights Twitter thread.