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The Open University of Israel Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment Edna Tal Hagit Tal The Open The Open University University of of Israel Israel The Center for Technology The Center for Technology in Distance Education in Distance Education Wikimania 2006 August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Wikimania 2006 August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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The Open University of Israel

Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment

Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment

Edna TalHagit Tal

The OpenThe Open UniversityUniversity ofof IsraelIsrael The Center for TechnologyThe Center for Technology in Distance Education in Distance Education

Wikimania 2006 August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAWikimania 2006 August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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The Open University of Israel

The largest university in Israel Distance Learning institution 40,000 students, Aged 13 to 85 600 courses, B.A , M.A, M.Sc Open admission A pioneer and a leader in the implementation of

advance technologies to support learning

The Open University of Israel

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Why Wiki? Why MediaWiki?

Trendy tool Creates one collaborative learning product Provides powerful assessment tools for the

teacher and the researcher:History, Recent changes, User contributions, compare selected versions

Enables co-editing and “discussion” for each page

MediaWiki: fully Hebrew enabled and most students are already familiar with the Wikipedia

An open source code

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Uses of Wiki in Teaching and Learning at the Open University

The project started in September 2005

2006: 17 courses, 1000 students, 15 Instructors 2007 :30 courses

Participating Faculties: Humanities, Natural Sciences, Education, Social Sciences, Management and Economics and more

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Background for the Research “Technology and Learning”

A basic course for MA in Education

The Wiki-Assignment : To build a glossary of the course key terms

Assignment Features: • Duration: The entre semester• Compulsory assignment, 10 points of the final grade.

Evaluation Criteria:• Extent of participation• Degree of collaboration • Number of initiations• Quality of the work• Keeping to deadlines

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The Purpose of the Research

• To examine the quality of the collaborative assignment and its impact on learning

• To assess the Wiki platform as a collaborative learning environment

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Method

• A questionnaire to the students

• A quantitative analysis of the “digital traces” left on the server:

• Wiki tools: History, Recent changes, User contributions

• Tool developed by the Open University:Integration of the above into one statistical tool

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Number of participants: 32 Number of glossary terms: 164

Average contribution per student: 10 Active entries 33 Editings

Moderator’s contributions:

81 Active entries 318 Editings (82 feedbacks in “discussion”)

The Study

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Impact of the Wiki Assignment on Learning: Students’ Perception

75%71%

58%

67%

75%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

contributed tounderstanding

materials

awakenedinterest in the

course

helped me toassess myknowledge

helped me in thepreparation ofassignments

helped me toprepare for the

exam

Not at all or slightly Moderately to a great extent

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Did Collaborative Learning Occur?

42%58%

no collaboration(participant = 1)

collaboration(participants > 1)

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What Influenced Collaboration?

Instructor’s intervention

100%100%Total

77%39% Collaboration Participants > 1

23%61%No collaboration Participant = 1

No intervention 

In 50% of the terms the instructor gave feedback

91% of students reported that the involvement of the

instructor in the assignment encouraged active

participation in the assignment

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13%9%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Editing of term by otherstudents contributed to

its improvement

I liked the fact thatother students edited

terms which I haddefined

Not at all or slightly Moderately To a great extent

Attitude Towards Co-editing

How did you feel about exposing your work to the class?

“I had no problems with this exposure” “It was a struggle but also exciting”

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Would You Prefer to Receive a Ready Made Glossary Written by the Course Team?

33%

42%

25%

Not at all or slightly Moderately to a great extent

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To What Extent was this Wiki Assignment Enjoyable?

33%

13%

54%

Not at all or slightly Moderately to a great extent

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Thanks!

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