Collaborative Research: Production and Assessment of Student-Authored Wiki Textbooks

计算机科学（31）新兴的信息技术使新的内容传递形式成为可能。学生将有机会为自己的课程编写经过同行评审的教科书。学生不再仅仅是知识的消费者，而是与教师一起成为共同的生产者。这迫使他们更深入地学习材料，并更频繁地反思它。创建这种教科书的自然媒介是wiki，因为它使格式标准化，使学生更容易编辑大型作品的部分内容。这个项目结合了两套专业知识：维基教科书创建和学生生成内容的同行评审软件。管理维基教科书的创建和同行评审的软件系统具有几个自动化特性。这些功能包括学生创建标题，作者和审稿人之间的双盲反馈，以及学生同行评审的质量控制策略。该软件系统还提供了对流程管理的支持，允许在创作过程中的不同时间编写和审查文本的不同章节，以支持这种体验。该项目通过让学生参与知识生成和知识获取，促进了对各个学科的理解。学生们不仅能更好地学习现有的材料，而且还能为他们的同龄人发现和整理新知识。这为学生提供了探究和科学发现过程的第一手经验。通过在课堂上更容易地管理维基教科书的编写，它鼓励教师让他们的学生编写维基教科书。最后，正在开发的软件系统可用于STEM以外的学科。

Computer Science (31) Emerging information technologies are enabling new forms of content delivery. Students are provided with the opportunity of writing a peer-reviewed textbook for their own course. Instead of being merely the consumers of knowledge, students become co-producers, along with the instructor. This is forcing them to learn the material in greater depth, and to reflect upon it more frequently. The natural medium for the creation of such a textbook is a wiki, because it standardizes the format and makes it easy for students to edit parts of a larger work. This project is combining two sets of expertise: wiki textbook creation and software for peer review of student-generated content. A software system to manage the creation and peer review of a wiki textbook has several automating features. These features include rubric creation by students, double-blind feedback between author and reviewer, and quality-control strategies for student peer reviews. This software system also provides support for flow management to allow different chapters of the text to be written and reviewed at different times during the course of the creation to support this experience. This project is advancing understanding in a variety of disciplines by engaging students in knowledge generation as well as knowledge acquisition. Students not only learn existing material better, but they uncover and codify new knowledge for their peers. This gives students first-hand experience with the process of inquiry and scientific discovery. By making it easier to manage the writing of a wiki textbook in a class, it encourages instructors to have their students write wiki textbooks. Finally, the software system that is being developed is adoptable in disciplines other than STEM.