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Enhancing Education with Wikis: Collaborative Learning and Student Engagement

This article explores the use of wikis in educational settings, focusing on their collaborative nature and ability to foster student engagement. It examines examples such as Wikipedia and dedicated class wikis in Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Moodle. While studies show wikis can be comparable to traditional encyclopedias, challenges include misinformation, grading difficulties, and student collaboration issues. The potential for wikis to enhance student ownership and provide a skill-set for future use is discussed, along with alternative platforms for collaborative learning.

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Enhancing Education with Wikis: Collaborative Learning and Student Engagement

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  1. Using Wikis in Teaching

  2. Wikis • e.g. Wikipedia • Collaborative web site • Users can create and edit content pages

  3. Use Wikipedia? • Nature 2005 study found it comparable to Encyclopedia Brittanica • Disorganized, some information omitted • Several studies find error correction within hours • Obscure articles aren’t repaired as fast • There’s a nice Wikipedia article summarizing all of this.

  4. Student edited wiki • Gives students ownership • Creates a student-centered resource • A skill for future use

  5. Who uses wikis? • Software documentation –e.g. Perl, Moodle • Corporate in-house wikis • Research collaborators

  6. Have students edit Wikipedia? • Hard to grade • May be removed or corrected very rapidly • May irritate other users

  7. Dedicated Class Wikis • Most LMS systems have them – e.g. Moodle • Or you can implement various freeware wikis . • e.g. Wikispaces • We’ve used ScrewTurn Wiki • Example in my Genetics class

  8. Issues • Students don’t do optional • Grading • Students don’t like to correct each other

  9. Alternatives • In Moodle – glossary and database • Blogs • Others?

  10. What do you want? • Resource for students or experience for students? • Growing resource over semesters, or new every semester? • How open or structured?

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