The Piloting Researches on Collaborative Lesson-Preparing Based on Eduwiki Platform

This paper describes a collaborative lesson-preparing platform, named Eduwiki, which supports a community of inservice teachers creating, sharing, and improving capacity of lesson-preparing. The main purpose of this study compares what method is good for lesson-preparing and explores what motivates or hinders teachers to do collaborative lesson-preparing. Findings suggest that compared with uploading lesson plans, collaborative lesson-preparing activity in Eduwiki adapts to teacherspsila lesson-preparing. School leaderspsila support and reciprocity appear to be the main motivators for teacherspsila collaborative lesson-preparing, while lack of time and ICT skills appear to be the main barriers. The results of this study have proved that Eduwiki is an effective collaborative lesson-preparing platform and has important significance for the future application.