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Park, Diana E.; Bridges, Laurie M. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2022
There is a common classroom refrain, "Don't use "Wikipedia"; it's unreliable." Unfortunately, this simple dismissal of the world's largest repository of information fails to engage students in a critical conversation about how knowledge within "Wikipedia" is constructed and shared. "Wikipedia" is available…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Information Literacy
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McAndrew, Ewan; Campbell, Lorna – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Translation Studies MSc students at the University of Edinburgh take part in a Wikipedia translation assignment as part of their independent study component. The students make use of the free and open encyclopaedia's Content Translation tool which enables them to create translations side-by-side to the original article and automates the process of…
Descriptors: Translation, Web 2.0 Technologies, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites
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Thirakunkovit, Suthathip; Boonyaprakob, Kornsiri – rEFLections, 2022
This mixed-methods study explored the students' learning from the task-based collaborative writing process (Ellis, 2003; Willis, 1996) and the effects of its process on their writing improvement in a compulsory academic writing course. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this course was conducted completely online. This 15-week course followed the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)
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Hills, Thomas T. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2015
The recent growth in crowdsourcing technologies offers a new way of envisioning student involvement in the classroom. This article describes a participatory action research approach to combining crowdsourced content creation with the student as producer model, whereby students' interests are used to drive the identification and creation of…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Student Participation, Participatory Research
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Goldstein, Olzan; Peled, Yehuda – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
The study examines pedagogical approaches in using wikis in teaching and learning in teacher education colleges. It focuses on: instructors' motivation for wiki-based teaching; course types; teaching methods; evaluation; content structure; characteristics of student collaboration and learning outcomes; involvement of instructors in the learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Course Content
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Mao, Jin; Peck, Kyle – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2013
This study investigated the effects of assessment strategies and self-regulated learning skills on students' learning and perceptions of assessment for learning. The results revealed no statistically significant difference in the immediate skill-based and cognitive learning outcomes, but peer assessment teams scored significantly higher than the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Online Courses, Student Evaluation, Learning Strategies
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Romsdahl, Rebecca J.; Hill, Michael J. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
In graduate education, there is often a great divide between classroom learning and research endeavors. Using learning community (LC) values and strategies, our goal is to build stronger and more meaningful ties between these two aspects of graduate education so that students see them as complimentary learning rather than separate components. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Theory Practice Relationship, Models, Learning Activities
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Nix, Elizabeth M. – History Teacher, 2010
Many history professors have been reluctant to authorize students to use Wikipedia in their classwork because they do not fully trust the open source encyclopedia. But as increasing numbers of scholars and teachers work with Wikipedia, its influence becomes undeniable. In this article, the author describes how Wikipedia works and how she made…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, History Instruction
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory