The impact of the usage of wikis from a teacher/student perspective in an educational context

Author

Abreu, Pedro ; Silva, Daniel Castro ; Mendes, Pedro ; Vinhas, Vasco

Author_Institution

Artificial Intell. & Comput. Sci. Lab., Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

25-28 July 2009

Firstpage

1325

Lastpage

1330

Abstract

The use of wiki tools in both personal as well as professional contexts has known a significant increase in the past few years, with some wiki-based applications reaching an enormous success at an international level. This paper provides an overview on the recent development of wiki technologies and, through the analysis of a survey, tries to determine what is the level of acceptance of wiki-based applications in a professional, academic environment, presenting several statistics collected from the answers to a survey. Also, some suggestions are presented, that may influence the future developments of wiki-related technologies and methodologies, in order to increase the productivity of Web based collaborative work.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; groupware; information networks; Web based collaborative work; educational context; teacher-student perspective; wiki technologies; wiki tools; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Collaborative work; Computer science; Computer science education; Internet; Laboratories; Productivity; Publishing; Statistical analysis; Collaborative Work; Education; Wiki Tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science & Education, 2009. ICCSE '09. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanning

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3520-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3521-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSE.2009.5228152

Filename

5228152