History: LearningManagementCaseStudyXavidp

Introduction to UniWiki case study

( Check also the information at my personal page in tw.o )

• All the information of our case study in the UniWiki project is available only in catalan, so far (you can use the free web translation services from University of Alacant ("Torsimany" project), at: http://www.torsimany.ua.es/) .
• I've submitted a comunication for a International Conference (held in Girona, Spain, next 30 June-1,2 July'04), mainly for Spanish speaker community; see http://cidui.upc.es), where I'll show the uses of Wikis, as tools for collaborative writing in the education field (for students of lecturers), mainly University but could also be used in Secondary School and Colleges, or course.
  • You'll find there information about the poster we're presenting at a conference, etc. You can also find some of the base information which we used to prepare the poster but in wiki format at: http://uniwiki.ourproject.org/tiki-index.php?page=ComunicacionAbreviadaCIDUI2004Wiki (in Spanish, with a link at the bottom for the automàtic translation to English)

Our goal and general info

• Test computer tools to help students and lecturers to cooperate writing documents for the learning/teaching field, with an increase of the efficiency and ease of developing their common tasks at university.
  • In the case of the students, we are testing whether they improve their efficiency to write group reports.
  • We we'll use for "efficiency", the marks of a report divided by the amount fo time invested to finish it; and compare it with blank cases (half the randomly selected students of the same classes to whom we will not allow them use the tool).
• We got funding from the Department of Universities, Research and Information Society from the Catalan Governement in Spain.
• Project started in January'04 and ends in September'05. September04 we'll start using wikis
• More information, in the project's homepage: http://uniwiki.ourproject.org

The tools we'll test

So far we are interested in tesing:

Wiki

• a Wiki, and we'll probably use the one from tikiwiki.org 😉 (at http://uniwiki.ourproject.org)

Web Folders (webdav) + Open Office .org (OOo)

• Web folders (using dav or webdav protocol) combined with Open Office suite version control capabilities.

We still don't know how many of us we'll test one or the other tool with their students.

Our team

Members

• Click here

Sujects in which we'll try tools such as wiki

• Click here

Problems we have found, so far

• While evaluating our students group reports, in wiki pages, we lack to be able to see all changes made by a single author (already reported to LearningManagementSystemDev ).