AdWiki: Cultivating a Wiki-Based Online Community of Practice for Advising Engineering Students by Integrating Open Source Business Model and Social Psychology Principles

该项目将设计和测试一个在线实践社区，用于基于开源商业模式和社会心理学提出的参与原则的学生咨询。由此产生的数字人工制品将为学生提供可持续的指导平台，并将作为一个试验台，以研究社会技术系统中的人类行为和评估指导。这种探索性的研究和实践的背景下，将在弗吉尼亚理工大学的新生工程计划。工程教育系的教师负责为所有新生（约1400名）提供建议，每个教师为约100名学生提供建议，此外还有教学，研究和服务责任。该系统将有利于教师，使咨询更容易，更有效，并将为学生提供方便地访问关键的咨询信息。这项研究将产生评估建议的指标，一个基于维基的可持续建议平台，以及对人类行为和社会技术系统之间关系的理论理解。这些结果是理解和发展实践社区的重要一步，该社区将物理和电子世界联系在一起，并将不同的学生群体聚集在一起。成功的准则将分享并传播给其他机构。增加工程专业毕业生的数量对经济竞争力很重要，研究表明，缺乏高质量的建议往往是学生离开工程专业的一个因素。 然而，研究，教学和服务竞争教师的时间，有一个根本的不一致之间的激励终身教职和学生的建议和指导。该项目将创建一个具有社区功能的动态存储库，并促进人际互动。这个平台的可持续性是通过激励教师和咨询人员的不断参与，减少他们的时间承诺和多余的努力，并通过引入指标来衡量他们的贡献。该项目将作为其他系统的模型，可以支持工程专业的学生在本科教育期间。

This project will design and test an online community of practice for student advising based on the open source business model and proposed principles of participation from social psychology. The resulting digital artifact will provide a sustainable platform for student advising and will serve as a test-bed to study human behavior in socio-technical systems and evaluate advising. The context for this exploratory research and practice will be the freshmen engineering program at Virginia Tech. The faculty in the Engineering Education department is responsible for advising all incoming (approximately 1400) freshmen students and each faculty advises about 100 students, in addition to teaching, research, and service responsibilities. This system will benefit the faculty by making advising easier and more efficient and will provide students with easy access to critical advising information. This research will produce metrics for evaluation of advising, a wiki-based sustainable platform for advising, and theoretical understanding of relationships between human behavior and socio-technical systems. The results are an important step towards understanding and developing a community of practice that bridges physical and electronic worlds and brings together diverse groups of students. Successful guidelines will be shared and disseminated to other institutions. Increasing the number of engineering graduates is important to economic competitiveness, and research has shown that lack of quality advising is often a factor when students leave engineering programs. However, research, teaching and service compete for faculty time and there is a fundamental misalignment between the incentives for tenure and advising and mentoring of students. The project will create a dynamic repository with community features and facilitate interpersonal interaction. The sustainability of this platform is assured through incentives for constant participation of faculty and advising staff by reducing their time commitment and redundancy of effort, and by introducing metrics to measure their contribution. This project will serve as a model for other systems that can support engineering students for the duration of their undergraduate education.