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Investigating technical and pedagogical usability issues of collaborative learning with wikis

Said Hadjerrouit

subject

Cooperative learningCollaborative writingGeneralLiterature_INTRODUCTORYANDSURVEYComputer scienceTeaching methodcollaborative learningpedagogical usabilityEducationMediaWikiInformationSystems_GENERALcollaborative writingPedagogyMathematics educationComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONGeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.dictionariesencyclopediasglossaries)VDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280::Subject didactics: 283lcsh:LC8-6691lcsh:Special aspects of educationbusiness.industryCommunicationCollaborative learningUsabilityTeacher educationComputer Science ApplicationsPeer reviewwikitechn- ical usabilityInformaticsbusiness

description

Published version of an article in the journal: Informatics in Education : an International Journal. Wikis have been recently promoted as tools that foster collaborative learning. However, there has been little research devoted to the criteria that are suitable to address issues pertinent to collaborative learning. This paper proposes a set of criteria to explore technical and pedagogical usability issues of collaborative learning with wikis. The criteria are then used to evaluate students’ collaborative writing activities. The units of study are wikis that groups of students developed collaboratively using MediaWiki. This paper also reports on technical and pedagogical implications for the use of wikis as collaborative learning tools in teacher education.

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2012-04-01
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/138197