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Writing for the Greater Good: What Do Educators Think about Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool?
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Shani Evenstein Sigalov; Piotr Konieczny – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
This research presents the results of a questionnaire survey (N = 222) exploring teachers' experiences with using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, mostly in higher education, across various global contexts. The sample comprised educators from diverse regions, with a focus on those actively integrating Wikipedia and additional Wikimedia projects such…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
From Cooperation to Collaboration: Investigating Collaborative Group Writing and Social Knowledge Construction in Pre-Service Teachers
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Leng, Jing; Yi, Yuhe; Gu, Xiaoqing – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The rapid development of social media tools has drawn much research interest in teacher education. This development has suggested that a wiki with discussion (i.e., an enhanced wiki) seems valuable in facilitating online collaborative and interactive learning. This study examined dynamic patterns of revision behavior in group writing by…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Interaction, Cooperation, Preservice Teachers
Do Social Regulation Strategies Predict Learning Engagement and Learning Outcomes? A Study of English Language Learners in Wiki-Supported Literature Circles Activities
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Li, Yanyan; Chen, Kailiang; Su, You; Yue, Xiangli – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Combining wiki technology with the literature circles could be powerful and beneficial for promoting the learning of English as a foreign language (EFL). However, little research has been conducted to investigate the role of EFL students' social forms of regulatory strategies in their learning performance in the context of wiki-supported…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Web Sites
Critical Thinking in Wikibook Creation with Enhanced and Minimal Scaffolds
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Kim, Nari – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
The purpose of the study was to investigate how to scaffold students' critical thinking skills in the process of co-writing and co-reflection of wikibooks in formal learning contexts. To observe critical thinking skills in wiki collaborations under different levels of instructional guidance, two graduate wikibook projects were selected: an…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Collaborative Writing, Editing