scholarly journals Effects of Implicit Guidance on Contribution Quality in a Wiki-based Learning Environment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Heimbuch ◽  
Daniel Bodemer
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Awareness Information ◽  
Discussion Threads ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge Construction

Learning within the scope of collaborative knowledge construction with Wikis offers opportunities for triggering socio-cognitive conflicts through controversies. Since the nature of discussions between users in Wikis is not easily recognisable, we were investigating the effects of visual highlighting as controversy awareness information. In this study we wanted to enable N = 81 participants to produce contributions of higher quality due to focused selection towards relevant contents. We conducted both qualitative and quantitative analyses on wiki contributions. The addition of visual highlights indicating controversies reinforced students to direct their attention towards important contents discussing the study's subject matter. When their selection behaviour was positively influenced it resulted in higher quality and more elaborate contributions to discussion threads and to the final revision of an article. We conclude that unobtrusive implicit guidance can facilitate collaborative knowledge construction processes and outcomes.

scholarly journals Supporting awareness of content-related controversies in a wiki-based learning environment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Heimbuch ◽  
Daniel Bodemer
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
External Representations ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Discussion Threads ◽  
Contradictory Evidence ◽  
Awareness Support

User generated content in wikis is mainly distributed on the article view and its corresponding talk page. Potentials of analyzing and supporting discussants' knowledge construction processes on the level of talk pages have still been rarely researched. The presented experimental study addresses this issue by providing external representations of content-related controversies which were led by contradictory evidence between discussants to foster awareness on socio-cognitive conflicts which can be beneficial for learning. Its aim is to investigate how increased salience of controversies can guide participants' (N = 81) navigation and learning processes. Three conditions differing in their degree of awareness support were implemented in this study. Results indicate that the implementation of awareness representations helped students to focus on meaningful discussion threads. Findings suggest that wiki talk page users can benefit from additional structuring aids.

Individual and Socio-Cultural Framing of E-Learning

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Bernhard Ertl ◽  
Kathrin Helling
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge Construction

Considering e-learning as a socio-cultural system acknowledges that individuals are embedded within different contexts, influenced by the culture and the society the individual lives in. Designing beneficial e-learning scenarios means respecting these socio-cultural contexts and providing appropriate framing. This chapter introduces several aspects influencing e-learning from an individual and socio-cultural perspective. It firstly deals with the aspect of learners' collaborative knowledge construction in e-learning and introduces what this perspective means for the design and implementation of e-learning scenarios. The chapter looks at tools and shared external representations and shows how they can beneficially support learning processes and outcomes. In a third step, it looks at the individual's learning characteristics, for example an individual's prior knowledge, and socio-cultural biases relating to gender, ethnicity, and socio economic background, and discusses how these may be an obstacle for e-learning and how e-learning may help learners to overcome their biases. Finally, the chapter focuses on the issue on evaluation and provides suggestions to evaluate environments for e-learning from a socio-cultural perspective.

Collaborative Knowledge Construction with Web Video Conferencing

2010 ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stylianos Hatzipanagos ◽  
Anthony Basiel ◽  
Annette Fillery-Travis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge Construction

This chapter explores how web-based video conferencing (WVC) can be used to create and support learning environments within a work based learning context. Computer mediated communication interactions through WVC can support collaborative knowledge construction by encouraging dialogical processes in communities of learners and practitioners. We position our field of exploration within the educational landscape defined by socio-economic changes, resulting from the development of the knowledge economy, and the explosive growth of information and communication technologies to serve it.

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