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Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment

The Open University of Israel. The Center for Technology in Distance Education. Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment. Edna Tal Hagit Tal. Wikimania 2006 August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The Open University of Israel. The largest university in Israel

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Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment

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  1. The OpenUniversityofIsrael The Center for Technology in Distance Education Collaborative Learning in a WikiEnvironment Edna Tal Hagit Tal Wikimania 2006 August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  2. The Open University of Israel • The largest university in Israel • Distance Learning institution • 40,000 students, Aged 13 to 85 • 600 courses, B.A , M.A, M.Sc • Open admission • A pioneer and a leader in the implementation of advance technologies to support learning

  3. Why Wiki? Why MediaWiki? • Trendy tool • Creates one collaborative learning product • Provides powerful assessment tools for the teacher and the researcher:History, Recent changes, User contributions, compare selected versions • Enables co-editing and “discussion” for each page • MediaWiki: fully Hebrew enabled and most students are already familiar with the Wikipedia • An open source code

  4. Uses of Wiki in Teaching and Learning at the Open University • The project started in September 2005 • 2006: 17 courses, 1000 students, 15 Instructors 2007 :30 courses • Participating Faculties: Humanities, Natural Sciences, Education, Social Sciences, Management and Economics and more

  5. Background for the Research • “Technology and Learning”A basic course for MA in Education • The Wiki-Assignment :To build a glossary of the course key terms • Assignment Features: • Duration: The entre semester • Compulsory assignment, 10 points of the final grade. • Evaluation Criteria: • Extent of participation • Degree of collaboration • Number of initiations • Quality of the work • Keeping to deadlines

  6. The Purpose of the Research • To examine the quality of the collaborative assignment and its impact on learning • To assess the Wiki platform as a collaborative learning environment

  7. Method • A questionnaire to the students • A quantitative analysis of the “digital traces” left on the server: • Wiki tools: History, Recent changes, User contributions • Tool developed by the Open University:Integration of the above into one statistical tool

  8. The Study • Number of participants: 32 • Number of glossary terms: 164 • Average contribution per student: 10 Active entries33 Editings • Moderator’s contributions: 81 Active entries 318 Editings (82 feedbacks in “discussion”)

  9. Impact of the Wiki Assignment on Learning: Students’ Perception

  10. Did Collaborative Learning Occur?

  11. What Influenced Collaboration? Instructor’s intervention No intervention Collaboration Participants > 1 39% 77% 61% 23% No collaboration Participant = 1 Total 100% 100% In 50% of the terms the instructor gave feedback 91% of students reported that the involvement of the instructor in the assignment encouraged active participation in the assignment

  12. Attitude Towards Co-editing How did you feel about exposing your work to the class? “I had no problems with this exposure” “It was a struggle but also exciting”

  13. Would You Prefer to Receive a Ready Made Glossary Written by the Course Team?

  14. To What Extent was this Wiki Assignment Enjoyable?

  15. Thanks! ednata@openu.ac.il

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