For More Students, Working on Wikis Is Part of Making the Grade - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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students’ learning improved when they embarked on wiki projects. “Rather than trying to read a textbook and regurgitate it for an exam, in order to write coherent segments, you have to actually intellectually understand it and be able to craft your own words, and that is a higher level of learning challenge,” he said. “All the research on learning theory suggests this is in fact a better way to learn.”
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Keith Hamon on 04 May 11Writing is an integral part of participating in a wiki, and writing is what ASU's QEP is all about.
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“It’s not something that we’re used to,” said Stuart Lee, an undergraduate who took Mr. Netzley’s class and helped create a wiki page on digital media in Japan. “We usually see the professor as the gatekeeper of information.”
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So this is part of what happens when we teachers cease acting as gatekeepers and begin to act as concierges and curators.
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“The notion of saving face really complicates the learning process,” he said, “because how do you learn if you’re not able to make mistakes and get feedback?”
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When will we move beyond the drive to the right answer and all the anxiety and mental illness that surrounds that drive?
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Although wikis, with their collaborative approach and vast reach online, have been around for at least 15 years, their use as a general teaching tool in higher education is still relatively recent. But an increasing number of universities are now adopting them as a teaching tool. As part of that trend, a handful of Singapore universities are using the wiki platform as a way to engage students.