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Davis, LiAnna – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2022
All content to Wikipedia is added and edited in a crowdsourced model, wherein nearly anyone can click the "edit" button and change content on Wikipedia. An active community of dedicated volunteers is what keeps Wikipedia as reliable as it is today--good, but not complete. More diverse contributors are needed to add more content to…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Volunteers
Garg, Anchal; Rajendran, Ramkumar – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Procrastination is one of the issues affecting more than half of the student population and is known to impact them negatively. It is also one of the major reasons for failure and dropout. Therefore, several studies have been conducted in this domain to understand when and why students procrastinate. The existing studies use self-reported…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Time Management, Web Sites, Editing
Cattapan, Alana – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
In the Winter of 2020, my introductory Canadian politics class started to develop its own online, collaboratively-built, open-access, introductory "textbook" on Canadian politics. Drawing on the principles of critical pedagogy, the assignment engages students in group work to generate plain-language primers that can connect with an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Introductory Courses, Political Science, Textbook Preparation
Hoppe, H. Ulrich; Doberstein, Dorian; Hecking, Tobias – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2021
Collaborative learning in small groups can enrich and enhance the learning experience in large online courses by facilitating interaction and collaborative knowledge building between peers. on the work reported here addresses scenarios based on asynchronous communication and exchange. As compared to synchronous and face-to-face settings, these…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Cooperative Learning
Yeh, Robert; Zoeckler, Laurence – Marketing Education Review, 2022
Fast-growing and evolving online content has enabled responsive curriculum updates to support students' learning of how to apply concepts to understand and solve real world problems. Written case studies have long served this purpose in a wide variety of disciplines, and many educators have seen value in presenting cases through the use of online…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Undergraduate Students, Marketing
McKenzie, Brian; Brown, Jonathan; Casey, Denis; Cooney, Adeline; Darcy, Eamon; Giblin, Susan; Ní Mhórdha, Máire – College Teaching, 2018
Wikipedia can serve as an effective, engaging tool for teaching key information literacy skills. This article examines the experience of seven faculty members and over four hundred students who edited Wikipedia as part of a first-year seminar. We review the literature surrounding the pedagogical value of Wikipedia and then discuss our goals in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Information Literacy, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Hirci, Nataša; Pisanski Peterlin, Agnes – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
It has been argued that the growing impact of new technologies on society should be reflected in education in response to the digital generation's extensive dependence on digital tools. This paper focuses on the incorporation of digital technologies into translator training by comparing the benefits and drawbacks of "wikis," a…
Descriptors: Translation, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Comparative Analysis
Petrucco, Corrado – Research on Education and Media, 2018
The academic world initially regarded Wikipedia with misgivings for a number of reasons, including the uncertainty concerning the reliability of its content, its anonymous authorship and the fact that students often use it as an easy way to cut and paste material for their coursework. In recent years, however, university instructors' perception of…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Teaching Methods
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
Levrai, Peter; Bolster, Averil – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
In English for academic purposes courses, group oral presentations are quite common but essay writing tends to be seen as an individual endeavour, albeit with scope for peer review. This article discusses action research reflecting on student perceptions of a framework to support students through a semester-long collaborative essay assignment in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language of Instruction, Essays, Action Research
DiPasquale, Joshua – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2017
This paper is a reflection of my own individualistic participation in the EDUC 5001G: Principles of Learning (PoL) class wiki assignment. Specifically, I investigate the need for increased scaffolding strategies to facilitate direct collaboration among its participants. In order to do this, I first conducted a preliminary examination of the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Hollingsworth, Mary Ann; Rogers, Reenay R. H. – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
Online learning as a choice in higher education has grown exponentially. Research has indicated the importance for instructors to provide opportunity for student collaboration through use of online tools such as wikis, discussion boards, and group projects. A survey methodology was employed to gather higher education students' opinions on both…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes
Abdulkarim, Aim; Ratmaningsih, Neiny; Anggraini, Diana Noor – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The relevance of the research stems from the need to construct literacy information technology in the 21st century learning. The essential idea of this article was improving students` information literacy through "Civicpedia" as a civic education e-learning media (learning material on website, e-dictionary, video, poster, valued story,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing
Warren-Riley, Sarah; Hurley, Elise Verzosa – Composition Forum, 2017
With the proliferation of digital media and other forms of technologically mediated communication, this article argues that critical multimodal pedagogical approaches to public writing--particularly through interrogating mundane, everyday texts--have the potential to engage students with advocacy and its role in shaping public discourse. In this…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods, Collaborative Writing, Educational Technology
Blikstad-Balas, Marte – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
In traditional classrooms, a textbook was often the only source of knowledge available; in stark contrast, today's classrooms have an infinite number of knowledge sources available through the Internet. Nevertheless, a range of studies suggest that students systematically favor Wikipedia in their school-related literacy practices. The present…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Assignments, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology