Motivation and emotion/Changes/2026
Changes - 2026
Summary
Student feedback about this unit in 2025 indicated that 85% of students were satisfied. For more detail, see Motivation and emotion - Evaluation 2025.
The following changes based on student feedback in 2026 will be considered:
- Schedule
- Add readings for each lecture to the schedule
- Assessment
- Practice quizzes
- Replace module-based (6) quizzes with weekly (12) or chapter-based (16) quizzes
- Topic development
- Develop an analytic rubric that describes performance for each grade level for each marking criterion
- Create a short (3–5 min) video explaining the purpose of the task, its connection to learning outcomes, and why Wikiversity is used
- Book chapter
- Develop an analytic rubric that describes performance for each grade level for each marking criterion
- Create a short (max. 10 min) video introduction linking the task rationale, Wikiversity’s collaborative context, and marking criteria
- Exam
- Publish an early-semester announcement and dedicated "Exam guidelines" page outlining how to prepare and what resources to focus on
- Explicitly describe how each of the following contributes to exam readiness:
- Lecture slides
- Lecture slide notes
- Wikiversity notes
- Lecture / recording
- Readings
- Tutorial notes
- Tutorial / recording
- Practice quizzes
- Wikiversity
- Send an early announcement (Week 1–2) with practical guidance about how to use Wikiversity. See ISEQ1-Q2-2025.
- Create a short "Introduction to editing Wikiversity" video linking to the detailed Tutorial 02
- Develop optional short "advanced editing" clips
- Identify and resolve navigational barriers between UCLearn and Wikiversity to minimise navigational confusion
- Lectures
- Availability
- Publish a Week 00 announcement or page explaining how to "work ahead" (including availability of lectures, tutorials, and recordings)
- Videos
- For each video, add a brief pedagogical justification within slides/Wikiversity notes explaining:
- Why it was included
- What key takeaway aligns with learning outcomes
- Which assessment element it supports
- For each video, add a brief pedagogical justification within slides/Wikiversity notes explaining:
- Learning outcomes
- Develop concise learning outcomes (or takeaway messages) for each lecture
- Map lecture content and activities to:
- Unit learning objectives
- Reading learning outcomes
- Tutorial objectives
- Availability
- Tutorials
- Strengthen alignment of each tutorial and tutorial activity with:
- Unit learning objectives
- Lecture learning objectives
- Reading learning objectives
- Consider adding a brief reflective question linking each tutorial to assessment tasks
- Strengthen alignment of each tutorial and tutorial activity with: