Abstract:
Wikis have become increasingly popular both in corporate and educational
environments due to the possibilities they offer to support collaborative
approaches which can be applied to teaching and knowledge generation. For this
reason, they are becoming a valuable tool for the improvement and enrichment
of the learning experiences of students and employees. Leading universities
all over the world have started to implement their own “wiki” platforms and
to successfully apply them in different areas. This success has also
encouraged other universities to adopt these platforms, and, as a result,
most universities nowadays include wikis as a part of the academic
resources available to their students. Nevertheless, not all of the
benefits that wikis offer to multidisciplinary university environments are
always obtained, and many students and teachers do not use them to their full
potential yet. Therefore, the goal of our work is twofold. On the one hand, we
aim to obtain a detailed picture of the introduction of wiki platforms in
academic communities. This is done through the analysis of the use made of them
in different universities located in Spain and in United Kingdom. On the other
hand, we pursue to contribute to determine the methodological procedures needed
to achieve the full educational potential of wikis. This last goal has led us to
a practical case study consisting in the incorporation of a wiki portal as a
proactive tool in the teaching of a specific subject from the M.Sc. degree in
Computer Science. We hope that the obtained results will help to prepare the
most convenient scenarios for the use of wikis in high education programs, as
well as to properly analyze the possibilities of these platforms in educational
environments. In addition, we hope to contribute to the improvement of wikis as
supporting teaching tools towards fully functional multidisciplinary platforms.
Journal: International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications
Language: English
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