Wikipedia has become the most used source of didactic materials with its immense number of Wiki pages, freely available to anyone. Wiki Course Builder is a Web platform designed to help teachers building courses composed by Wikipedia pages only, directly taken by the Wikipedia free encyclopedia. One of the interesting and novel features is the Community module, that provides a collaborative environment, through a suitable Graphic User Interface, where teachers can interact with all the courses in the platform. The Community is a graphical visualization of the Wikipedia pages used by all the teachers in the systems, grouped in clusters, each representing a particular topic. Another characteristic is the information about the Teaching Styles of those teachers that have used that page in their courses. This feature has a twofold advantage. First, each Wikipedia page is tagged with the Teaching Styles. Second, this social aspect gives useful suggestions for possible extensions or changes in the courses. We present a complete use case showing the usefulness of the social Community environment to speed up and improve the course building activity.
De Medio, C., Gasparetti, F., Limongelli, C., Sciarrone, F. (2021). A Social Approach to a Wiki Course Building. In Springer Proceedings in Complexity (pp.291-301). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. [10.1007/978-3-030-62066-0_22].
A Social Approach to a Wiki Course Building
De Medio C.;Gasparetti F.;Limongelli C.;Sciarrone F.
2021-01-01
Abstract
Wikipedia has become the most used source of didactic materials with its immense number of Wiki pages, freely available to anyone. Wiki Course Builder is a Web platform designed to help teachers building courses composed by Wikipedia pages only, directly taken by the Wikipedia free encyclopedia. One of the interesting and novel features is the Community module, that provides a collaborative environment, through a suitable Graphic User Interface, where teachers can interact with all the courses in the platform. The Community is a graphical visualization of the Wikipedia pages used by all the teachers in the systems, grouped in clusters, each representing a particular topic. Another characteristic is the information about the Teaching Styles of those teachers that have used that page in their courses. This feature has a twofold advantage. First, each Wikipedia page is tagged with the Teaching Styles. Second, this social aspect gives useful suggestions for possible extensions or changes in the courses. We present a complete use case showing the usefulness of the social Community environment to speed up and improve the course building activity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
