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| Titel |
Web 2.0 collaboration tool to support student research in hydrology – an opinion |
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A. Pathirana, B. Gersonius, M. Radhakrishnan |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 16, no. 8 ; Nr. 16, no. 8 (2012-08-06), S.2499-2509 |
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250013408
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-16-2499-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
A growing body of evidence suggests that it is unwise to make the a-priori
assumption that university students are ready and eager to embrace modern
online technologies employed to enhance the educational experience. We
present our opinion on employing Wiki, a popular Web 2.0 technology, in small
student groups, based on a case-study of using it customized to work as a
personal learning environment (PLE1) (Fiedler and
Väljataga, 2011) for supporting thesis research in hydrology. Since
inception in 2006, the system presented has proven to facilitate knowledge
construction and peer-communication within and across groups of students of
different academic years and to stimulate learning. Being an open ended and
egalitarian system, it was a minimal burden to maintain, as all students
became content authors and shared responsibility. A number of unintended uses
of the system were also observed, like using it as a backup medium and mobile
storage. We attribute the success and sustainability of the proposed
Web 2.0-based approach to the fact that the efforts were not limited to the
application of the technology, but comprised the creation of a supporting
environment with educational activities organized around it. We propose that
Wiki-based PLEs are much more suitable than traditional learning management
systems for supporting non-classroom education activities like thesis
research in hydrology.
1Here we use the term PLE to refer
to the conceptual framework to make the process of knowledge construction a
personalized experience – rather than to refer to the technology (in this
case Wiki) used to attempt implementing such a system. |
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