Using Wikis to Support Knowledge Building in a Graduate Education Course

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Hewitt, J. & Peters, V. (2006). Using Wikis to Support Knowledge Building in a Graduate Education Course. In E. Pearson & P. Bohman (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2006 (pp. 2200-2204). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2006
June 2006
ISBN 1-880094-60-6
  Elaine Pearson & Paul Bohman
AACE

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Authors

Jim Hewitt, Vanessa Peters, OISE University of Toronto, Canada

Abstract

The current study explored how Wikis can be used as a support for knowledge building in a graduate-level distance education course. The course consisted of 15 students who collaboratively constructed a set of Wiki pages on a variety of topics for future classes to use as a knowledge resource. The goal of the research was to examine how students experienced working in a Wiki, and how Wikis might profitably be used as a distance education technology to foster knowledge building. Data were collected from three sources: the contents of the Wiki, an online questionnaire that the students completed anonymously, and student interviews. The results of the research, although preliminary, suggest that students viewed the construction of their wiki as an authentic task that had value both for themselves (as the developers of the wiki) and for future classes. There is also evidence to suggest that engagement in the Wiki activity promoted deeper learner investigations and engaged students in high-level cognitive processes.

Keywords

• Students
• Distance Education
• Educational Technology

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