Scaffolding Wiki Use in Engineering Courses

工程课程中脚手架 Wiki 的使用

• 批准号: 0941950
• 负责人: Jihie Kim
• 金额: $ 17万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0941950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaffolding; Wiki; Use; Engineering; Courses

Computer Science (31) Wikis, known as collaborative knowledge building environments, are being used to facilitate computer mediated collaboration among undergraduate students working in project-based settings. As educational technology becomes an integral part of the instructional engineering landscape and distance education becomes accepted practice, understanding how students learn engineering becomes intertwined with understanding how computer mediated communication helps and hinders learning. The Pedagogical Wiki project is creating a novel framework for assessing and scaffolding collaborative learning within Wiki environments. Research being undertaken includes (a) studying student adoption and interaction in new and ongoing Wiki-based engineering courses, and comparing Wiki adoption in non-engineering (education) courses;(b) developing instructional assessment tools based on discourse analysis and course topic ontology for qualitatively evaluating student Wiki interactions; and (c) identifying scaffolding opportunities, such as topic-based material sharing, to promote student engagement and communication. Activity Theory is being used as a framework to study Wiki adoption.Ultimately, a key component of this work lies in the new discourse and topic-based instruments that enable instructors and educational researchers to better assess student learning within Wiki environments. Qualitative as well as quantitative metrics are being developed, some with respect to the particular domains being studied. The combined use of new natural language processing techniques and traditional instruments to study Wiki adoption in an engineering context contributes to an understanding of how students learn engineering in a collaborative, "real-world" medium. Codifying best practices for computer mediated collaboration is impacting the way engineering is being taught.

计算机科学（31）维基，被称为协作知识构建环境，正在被用来促进在基于项目的环境中工作的本科生之间的计算机中介协作。随着教育技术成为教学工程景观的一个组成部分，远程教育成为公认的实践，了解学生如何学习工程变得与了解计算机介导的通信如何帮助和阻碍学习交织在一起。教学维基项目正在创建一个新的框架，用于评估和支架在维基环境中的协作学习。正在进行的研究包括（a）研究学生在新的和正在进行的基于维基的工程课程中的采用和互动，并比较非工程课程中的维基采用情况。（B）开发基于话语分析和课程主题本体的教学评估工具，用于定性评估学生Wiki交互;及（c）物色支架式的机会，例如以主题为基础的资料分享，以促进学生的参与和沟通。活动理论被用来作为一个框架来研究Wiki的采用。最终，这项工作的一个关键组成部分在于新的话语和基于主题的工具，使教师和教育研究人员更好地评估学生在Wiki环境中的学习。 定性和定量的指标正在开发中，有些是针对正在研究的特定领域。结合使用新的自然语言处理技术和传统的工具来研究Wiki采用工程背景下有助于学生如何学习工程的理解在一个合作的，“现实世界”的媒体。 为计算机介导的协作编写最佳实践正在影响工程学的教学方式。