Using a wiki to evaluate individual contribution to a collaborative learning project.

One critical issue arising in the educational use of collaborative learning concerns the teacher's difficulty in evaluating the contribution and participation of each student in group-work. This article aims to illustrate and discuss a methodology that enables evaluation of the collaborative learnin...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 43 - 56
Autor principal: Trentin G
Formato: case study equations & formulas tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2009
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          Collaboration Methods
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          World Wide Web
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