TY - JOUR
T1 - Mashing-up wikis and forums
T2 - A case study of collaborative problem-based activity
AU - Ioannou, Andri
AU - Stylianou-Georgiou, Agni
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - A lot of studies have investigated the isolated use of threaded discussion and wiki technologies to facilitate collaboration in online learning settings. Nevertheless, the integration of both technologies into a potentially superior collaborative learning tool has not been explicitly investigated. This manuscript reports on an effort to undertake the merging and cooperation of wiki and threaded discussion technologies into a more sophisticated technology that better supports collaboration during problem-based activity in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) settings. Two customized collaboration technologies were investigated for their affordances to support students' cognitive processes and interactions during the construction of a group solution to an authentic problem. We found that one technology - WikiSplit - was particularly successful in promoting diversity of ideas (forum mode) while allowing learners to periodically update a group-owned document with syntheses of their emerging and shared understandings (wiki mode). We discuss how the integrated use of both a forum and a wiki, packaged together as one tool, can support and mediate desirable CSCL interactions during problem-based activity.
AB - A lot of studies have investigated the isolated use of threaded discussion and wiki technologies to facilitate collaboration in online learning settings. Nevertheless, the integration of both technologies into a potentially superior collaborative learning tool has not been explicitly investigated. This manuscript reports on an effort to undertake the merging and cooperation of wiki and threaded discussion technologies into a more sophisticated technology that better supports collaboration during problem-based activity in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) settings. Two customized collaboration technologies were investigated for their affordances to support students' cognitive processes and interactions during the construction of a group solution to an authentic problem. We found that one technology - WikiSplit - was particularly successful in promoting diversity of ideas (forum mode) while allowing learners to periodically update a group-owned document with syntheses of their emerging and shared understandings (wiki mode). We discuss how the integrated use of both a forum and a wiki, packaged together as one tool, can support and mediate desirable CSCL interactions during problem-based activity.
KW - collaborative artifact construction
KW - collaborative learning
KW - CSCL
KW - forums
KW - visualization techniques
KW - wikis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871004769&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09523987.2012.741201
DO - 10.1080/09523987.2012.741201
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871004769
SN - 0952-3987
VL - 49
SP - 303
EP - 316
JO - Educational Media International
JF - Educational Media International
IS - 4
ER -