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Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches

Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches. Source: Computers & Education 52 (2009) 141 – 146 Author: Melissa Cole Speaker: Cheng-Yee Lee. Introduction. Wiki editable website that is created incrementally by visitors working collaboratively. Visitor A.

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Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches

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  1. Using Wiki technology to support student engagement: Lessons from the trenches Source: Computers & Education 52 (2009) 141–146 Author: Melissa Cole Speaker: Cheng-Yee Lee

  2. Introduction • Wiki • editable website that is created incrementally by visitors working collaboratively Visitor A create … Page a view Visitor B Wiki Page b edit Visitor C Page c …

  3. Introduction • Objective of this paper • Trying to integrated wiki in teaching process • Some favorite characteristics for constructivist learning • A fail research

  4. Procedure • Participant • 75 undergraduate students in a information system course • Pedagogy • Lectures and seminars occurring on alternate weeks • Presentation of material now included support for Wiki use • Some exam questions are derived from wiki

  5. Procedure • Obtain data in the following survey 2007/11 2007/12 2008/01 Questionnaire to understand use of the wiki Interview to gain understanding of attitudes to the wiki Questionnaire to understand familiarity with social networking technologies

  6. Result • zero posts to the wiki after 5 weeks • 51 response had visited but had not posted anything in the whole semester

  7. Result

  8. Result • Students’ comments on wiki • navigation and browsing aren’t the easiest of tools • there aren’t any useful guidelines or tips that could be used • I did try posting once but it would not let me upload it

  9. Result

  10. Conclusion • “If you build it they will use it” • Not always in this case • Pedagogy need to be modified • Training is needed even students are familiar with other similar technology

  11. Comment • Technology acceptance model Perceive usefulness Intention of use External variable Perceive Ease of use Actual use

  12. Comment • Their perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use are low. • They do not make student concentrate on wiki, too

  13. Comment • Rienties, B., Tempelaar, D., Bossche, P. V. D., Gijselaers, W., Segers, M. (2009), The role of academic motivation in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Computers in Human Behavior 25, 1195–1206 • A similar paper with different pedagogy model • This paper is trying to inspect factors that influence student’s behavior in computer-supported collaborative learning • The outcome is success

  14. Comment • Research method and result of Rienties et. al. (2009) • 100 participants • Asking them solve 6 tasks during the whole semester • The discussion have to be on the forum • Produce 2307 messages

  15. Comment • But such Web 2.0 application on education are almost Problem-Based Learning • Pedagogy model may be limited

  16. Comment • Perceived ease of use and usefulness affect intention of use • Equally influence procrastination? • Relationship between procrastination and intention of use?

  17. Comment • Research question • The better the system, the lower procrastination tendency that user has? • The more user satisfies, the lower procrastination tendency that user has? • Is motivation factors more powerful than TAM factors in predicting procrastination tendency?

  18. Comment Perceived ease of use Intention of use Perceived usefulness Self-efficacy AMS Procrastination Task value

  19. Comment • Procedure • Questionnaire survey • Ask them preview chapter 2 via the e-learning system, and held a exam at next week • Embed questionnaires with exam answer sheet

  20. Comment Perceived ease of use Original TAM paper Perceived usefulness Intention of use MSLQ Self-efficacy Vallerand, 1992 AMS 你認為今天的第2章預習考 對你的重要程度是? Task value Procrastination 1/看完第2章的日期-考試日期

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