TY - GEN
T1 - Empowering formative assessment using embedded Web Widgets in Wikis
AU - Notari, Michele
AU - Schär, Sonja
AU - Schellenberg, Martin
AU - Chu, Samuel Kai Wah
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this article we describe how we developed and how we use a tool for teachers enhancing inter-group collaboration of learners using wikis in project-based learning settings with over 100 participants, where dierent groups of students develop similar projects and each project has an own wiki page. To achieve our goal we extended typical wiki functionality by using web widgets, mini applications embedded anywhere in the wiki environment using the iframe tag. Two dierent evaluation widgets (rating widget and ̀working progress̀ widget) are placed on each of the project pages. The project groups use the ̀working progress̀ widget to declare the amount of work done. The teacher and the rest of the learning community use the ̀rating̀ widget to rate the ongoing project work. A so called ̀meta widget̀ showing a summary of the results of the ̀rating̀ and ̀working progress̀ widget can be displayed on the start page of the learning community or if a project is divided in dierent milestones, on the page describing the goals and timeline for the milestone. Evaluation widgets and meta widget, which easily can be embedded by the teacher potentially all over the wiki pages, enhances visibility of quality and termination degree of a project and enhance so the self, the tutor and the peer review opportunities in such large scale project based learning settings. The created evaluation widgets and meta widgets have been embedded in the wiki of a three months curriculum. The evaluation of utility and usability of the widgets is ongoing. The educational value of rating and reecting about the working progress of a given task is discussed. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.3.1 [Computer Uses in Education]: Collaborative learning; H.3.5 [Online Information Services]: Web-based Services; H.5.3 [Group and Organization Interfaces]: Computer-supported cooperative work, web-based interaction.
AB - In this article we describe how we developed and how we use a tool for teachers enhancing inter-group collaboration of learners using wikis in project-based learning settings with over 100 participants, where dierent groups of students develop similar projects and each project has an own wiki page. To achieve our goal we extended typical wiki functionality by using web widgets, mini applications embedded anywhere in the wiki environment using the iframe tag. Two dierent evaluation widgets (rating widget and ̀working progress̀ widget) are placed on each of the project pages. The project groups use the ̀working progress̀ widget to declare the amount of work done. The teacher and the rest of the learning community use the ̀rating̀ widget to rate the ongoing project work. A so called ̀meta widget̀ showing a summary of the results of the ̀rating̀ and ̀working progress̀ widget can be displayed on the start page of the learning community or if a project is divided in dierent milestones, on the page describing the goals and timeline for the milestone. Evaluation widgets and meta widget, which easily can be embedded by the teacher potentially all over the wiki pages, enhances visibility of quality and termination degree of a project and enhance so the self, the tutor and the peer review opportunities in such large scale project based learning settings. The created evaluation widgets and meta widgets have been embedded in the wiki of a three months curriculum. The evaluation of utility and usability of the widgets is ongoing. The educational value of rating and reecting about the working progress of a given task is discussed. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.3.1 [Computer Uses in Education]: Collaborative learning; H.3.5 [Online Information Services]: Web-based Services; H.5.3 [Group and Organization Interfaces]: Computer-supported cooperative work, web-based interaction.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Formative evaluation
KW - Inter-group collaboration
KW - Large scale collaboration
KW - Long term projects
KW - Projectbased learning
KW - Web widget
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888170437&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2491055.2491096
DO - 10.1145/2491055.2491096
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888170437
SN - 9781450318525
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
T2 - 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, WikiSym + OpenSym 2013
Y2 - 5 August 2013 through 7 August 2013
ER -