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This paper discusses the process that was undertaken to design and implement a student-developed online textbook using Wikibooks technology. This process required a great deal of preparation, planning, and organization in the six months before...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a student developed online textbook for a educational foundations course. Data analysis is included to indicate current student perceptions of the process and how those perceptions are different ...

Using the Wikibooks platform, the students of the Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education (ECI 301) course at Old Dominion University have written their own textbook. Initial research has produced promising results. Students who...

Traditionally, teachers and traditional textbooks written by experts were epistemologically perceived as the major sources from which students were to acquire knowledge in school or on campus. The appearance and subsequent growth of Web technology...

This session will describe the efforts to implement a student-authored textbook within an Educational foundations course, and the subsequent efforts to evaluate the credibility of the textbook that was created. Focus will be given to the design of...

Rather than using a traditional text, students in an educational foundations course write their own text using Wikibooks. The notion of student-generated textbooks calls into question many issues of credibility, traditional definitions of expertise, ...

Instructors chose course textbooks while publishers largely control textbook content and the often exorbitant prices paid for these texts. Students, meanwhile, have little say in this process. Recent research suggests wikitextbooks could shift the...

Wiki software is designed to facilitate collaborative writing; however the inherent features of wikis do not include tools for managing the logistical tasks of organizing a large group of students to write a wiki textbook. With funding from a...

Scholars continue to debate the importance of Prensky’s (2001) Digital Native/Immigrant distinction (Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008). The proposed study will add empirical data to this debate by comparing large samples of Digital Natives to Digital ...

In Our World: Portraits of Communities across the Globe is an international wiki text written by k-16 students. Participating classes contribute a chapter describing their community; students read, review and evaluate each other’s work. The...