Collaborative learning with a wiki: Differences in perceived usefulness in two contexts of use.

This paper investigates the potential of a wiki (FlexWiki) to support collaborative authoring of web resources in authentic coursework by two different sets of education students at different stages of their professional development. Research questions included: (1) how the selected wiki could be bl...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 228 - 243
Autores principales: Naismith, L., Lee, B.-H., Pilkington, R.M.
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2011
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