Motivation and emotion/Wikiversity/Social contributions

Social contributions

A brief overview of social contributions, with links to more detailed information.

What are social contributions?

Social contributions are about giving to others.

• Any publicly viewable contribution to the internet that enhances the motivation and emotion project beyond the chapter you are working on.
• e.g., direct edit to a book chapter (current or past) or provide feedback on its talk page or contribute to a UCLearn discussion or social media thread in some way that directly or indirectly improves the quality of book chapter project beyond the chapter you are individually working on.

Why social contributions?

• Encourage and support peer feedback
• Enhance communication skills
• Reward student engagement

Types of social contribution

Social contributions can include:

• Direct editing to improve past or current chapters (e.g., adding new info/content, fixing errors, improving layout/formatting, adding relevant links) - examples
• Provide feedback on chapter talk pages (e.g., especially about chapter plans and/or drafts)
• Discussion
  • UCLearn discussion forum posts e.g., respond to requests for feedback
  • X - posts that discuss and promote the project using #emot24

Summarising social contributions

• Summarising social contributions with links to evidence

Topic development

• Make at least three different types of social contribution and summarise them with direct links to evidence on your Wikiversity user page
• See the topic development guidelines for more details

Book chapter

• Contributions with direct links to evidence are assessed according to their quality, quantity, and timeliness
• See the book chapter guidelines for more details

See also

• Search for chapters to improve
• Summarising social contributions