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"Learners' Perceived Effectiveness of Wikis for Team Projects" by Elizabeth Koh and Joh... - 3 views

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wiki effectiveness

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  • A theoretical model is developed, proposing wikis to positively affect learning outcomes of self-reported learning, process satisfaction, positive social environment and a sense of community, through the processes of task-related and socio-emotional activities. The model posits wiki experience and instructor support to enhance these activities.
  • Shari Franklin on 31 Jul 14
     
    An abstract with information on effectiveness. Article costs money.
Shari Franklin

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not - 0 views

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wiki review

shared by Shari Franklin on 30 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Content is ego-less, time-less, and never finished.
  • wiki pages are rarely organized by chronology; instead they are organized by context, by links in and links out, and by whatever categories or concepts emerge in the authoring process.
  • Entries are often unpolished, and creators may deliberately leave gaps open, hoping that somebody else will come along to fill them in.
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  • They are perfect for creating perpetually updated lists or collections of links, and most users can instantly grasp their utility as informal bulletin boards.
  • Because it takes only a couple of seconds to set up a new page, no purpose is too trivial.
  • Technical support and training was minimal: at most, one hour of instruction was needed, and in most cases, orientation was handled by a single e-mail.
  • Even confirmed technophobes have grasped and mastered the system quickly. The structure of wikis is shaped from within‚ not imposed from above. Users do not have to adapt their practice to the dictates of a system but can allow their practice to define the structure.
  • Perhaps the most common pedagogical application of wikis in education is to support writing instruction.
  • oe Moxley, a professor of English at the University of South Florida, lists a number of the medium's strengths for the teaching of writing skills: wikis invigorate writing ("fun" and "wiki" are often associated); wikis provide a low-cost but effective communication and collaboration tool (emphasizing text, not software); wikis promote the close reading, revision, and tracking of drafts; wikis discourage "product oriented writing" while facilitating "writing as a process"; and wikis ease students into writing for public consumption
  • wikis may prove to be invaluable for teaching the rhetoric of emergent technologies. Jill Walker, a hypertext theorist and prominent weblogger, suggests that whereas online technologies are fine for teaching things that can also be done with a paper notebook, a more important ability "to teach our students is network literacy: writing in a distributed, collaborative environment." Walker recognizes that bringing network literacy to the classroom is no simple task, that it "means jolting students out of the conventional individualistic, closed writing of essays only ever seen by [their] professor."25 As wikis enter the academy, students may not be the only ones jolted out of conventional practices.
  • most of the pedagogic dilemmas presented by wikis can be addressed by "traditional" management approaches. For instance, students may be required to sign or identify any work that they author.
  • The instructor's role shifts to that of establishing contexts or setting up problems to engage students.
  • In a wiki, the instructor may set the stage or initiate interactions, but the medium works most effectively when students can assert meaningful autonomy over the process.
  • most notable characteristics of wikis, relative simplicity, empowered users, bottom-up organization,
  • Shari Franklin on 30 Jul 14
     
    We read this article as part of our unit on Wikis. It should be revisited.
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