Motivation and emotion/Book/Overview

This project provides 1,500+ student-developed open educational resources about how the psychological science about motivation and emotion can be used to improve human lives. The 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, Australia.

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 1,500+ free, online chapters about specific motivation and emotion topics available
• accompanying multimedia overviews for each chapter

For more information about the ideas and practices underlying this project from an educational psychology perspective, see these articles:

• Collaborative authoring using wiki: An open education case study (Neill, 2024)
• Wikis provide a rich environment for collaborative open educational practices: Motivation and emotion case study (Neill, 2024)