ERIC Number: EJ987067
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0952-3987
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Mashing-Up Wikis and Forums: A Case Study of Collaborative Problem-Based Activity
Ioannou, Andri; Stylianou-Georgiou, Agni
Educational Media International, v49 n4 p303-316 2012
A lot of studies have investigated the isolated use of threaded discussion and wiki technologies to facilitate collaboration in online learning settings. Nevertheless, the integration of both technologies into a potentially superior collaborative learning tool has not been explicitly investigated. This manuscript reports on an effort to undertake the merging and cooperation of wiki and threaded discussion technologies into a more sophisticated technology that better supports collaboration during problem-based activity in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) settings. Two customized collaboration technologies were investigated for their affordances to support students' cognitive processes and interactions during the construction of a group solution to an authentic problem. We found that one technology--WikiSplit--was particularly successful in promoting diversity of ideas (forum mode) while allowing learners to periodically update a group-owned document with syntheses of their emerging and shared understandings (wiki mode). We discuss how the integrated use of both a forum and a wiki, packaged together as one tool, can support and mediate desirable CSCL interactions during problem-based activity. (Contains 2 tables and 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Problem Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Mediated Communication, Vignettes, Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students, Group Activities, Cooperative Learning, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, College Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Discussion, Open Source Technology, Content Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Cyprus
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