LEARNING-ORIENTED ASSESSMENT OF WIKI CONTRIBUTIONS - How to Assess Wiki Contributions in a Higher Education Learning Setting

Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, Juan Manuel Dodero, Manuel Palomo-Duarte, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo

2011

Abstract

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning based on wikis offers new ways of collaboration and encourages participation. When the number of contributions from students increases, traditional assessment procedures of e-learning settings suffer from scalability problems. In a wiki-based learning experience, some automatic tools are required to support the assessment of such great amounts of data. We have studied readily available analysis tools for the MediaWiki platform, that have complementary input, work modes and output. We comment our experience in two Higher Education courses, one using HistoryFlow and another using StatMediaWiki, and discuss the advantages and drawbacks of each system.

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J. Rodríguez-Posada E., Manuel Dodero J., Palomo-Duarte M. and Medina-Bulo I. (2011). LEARNING-ORIENTED ASSESSMENT OF WIKI CONTRIBUTIONS - How to Assess Wiki Contributions in a Higher Education Learning Setting . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8425-50-8, pages 79-86. DOI: 10.5220/0003308700790086


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@conference{csedu11,
author={Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada and Juan Manuel Dodero and Manuel Palomo-Duarte and Inmaculada Medina-Bulo},
title={LEARNING-ORIENTED ASSESSMENT OF WIKI CONTRIBUTIONS - How to Assess Wiki Contributions in a Higher Education Learning Setting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2011},
pages={79-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003308700790086},
isbn={978-989-8425-50-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - LEARNING-ORIENTED ASSESSMENT OF WIKI CONTRIBUTIONS - How to Assess Wiki Contributions in a Higher Education Learning Setting
SN - 978-989-8425-50-8
AU - J. Rodríguez-Posada E.
AU - Manuel Dodero J.
AU - Palomo-Duarte M.
AU - Medina-Bulo I.
PY - 2011
SP - 79
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0003308700790086