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

Source: Computers & Education 52 (2009) 141–146Author: Melissa ColeSpeaker: Cheng-Yee Lee

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Introduction

Wiki editable website that is created incrementall

y by visitors working collaboratively

Visitor APage a

Page b

Page c

……

Visitor B

Visitor C

create

view

edit

Wiki

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Introduction

Objective of this paper Trying to integrated wiki in teaching process Some favorite characteristics for constructivi

st learning A fail research

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Procedure Participant

75 undergraduate students in a information system course

Pedagogy Lectures and seminars occurring on alternat

e weeks Presentation of material now included supp

ort for Wiki use Some exam questions are derived from wiki

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Procedure

Obtain data in the following survey

Questionnaireto understanduse of the wiki

Interviewto gain understanding of

attitudes to the wiki

Questionnaireto understand

familiarity with social networking technologies

2007/11 2007/12 2008/01

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Result

zero posts to the wiki after 5 weeks 51 response had visited but had not posted a

nything in the whole semester

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Result

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Result

Students’ comments on wiki navigation and browsing aren’t the easiest

of tools there aren’t any useful guidelines or tips th

at could be used I did try posting once but it would not let me

upload it

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Result

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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

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Comment

Technology acceptance model

Externalvariable

Perceiveusefulness

PerceiveEase of use

Intentionof use

Actual use

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Comment

Their perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use are low.

They do not make student concentrate on wiki, too

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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 i

n computer-supported collaborative learning The outcome is success

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Comment

Research method and result of Rienties et. al. (2009) 100 participants Asking them solve 6 tasks during the whole s

emester The discussion have to be on the forum Produce 2307 messages

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Comment

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

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Comment

Perceived ease of use and usefulness affect intention of use Equally influence procrastination?

Relationship between procrastination and intention of use?

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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?

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Comment

AMS

Self-efficacy

Perceived ease of use

Perceived usefulness

Task value

Intention of use

Procrastination

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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

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Comment

AMS

Self-efficacy

Perceived ease of use

Perceived usefulness

Task value

Intention of use

Procrastination

Original TAM paper

MSLQ

Vallerand, 1992

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