TitleSocial Learning Activities Using Wiki in Moodle 2.3 E-Learning
System
Shaffika Mohd Suhaimi, Norazah Yusof, Nadirah Mohamad, Mohd Shahizan Othman
Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia
Introduction
E-learning Social Learning
Current e-learning: Passive platform
One-way communication
Uploading and downloading
material.
Encourage students behavior:
Exploring, sharing, exchanging,
collaborating, improving, skill and practice as well as achieve learning
objectivres.
Wiki in E-learning
E-learning Tools
Social Concept
Current trend
Social Learning Concept
The involvement of social interaction within group communities.
Reed, 2010
What?
(1) a changing of individual understanding, (2) the changing of the situation from individually become wider to communities
and (3) a social network involved with actors through social interaction.Reed, 2010
How
Blogging, instant messaging, wiki, content management system, tagging and forum.
Santo, 2010
Tools
Social Learning Concept
• Social concept can lead to collaboration activities in learning. Summers, 2010, Asblom, 2009.
DiscoveriesRequire learner to find,
create, and publish
CommunicateConvey the
information
Socialized To interact with
learners
PerformConstructive work
Involved 4 dimensions.
Wiki‘collection of web pages created’
Allow user to modify,
adding, editing and deleting.
Enables user to record each changes.
Become a tool for collaborating
authors, source of knowledge.
Become an important tool to assist learners in particular skills:
knowledge construction, contextual application, collaborative learning,
and critical thinking.West, 2009.
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Wiki Project for Contextual ApplicationApplying (Activities) Creating (Task)
1 Event planning Story creation2 Process map Team challenge3 Virtual science lab Media design project4 Field research project Service learning project
Item Wiki Project for Knowledge Construction
Applying (Activities) Creating (Task)1 Resource bank Annotated bibliography
2 Frequently Asked Question Online dialogue
3 Error finding and correcting Group summary
4 Historical time line Class encyclopedia
Where is the platform to apply wiki project??
Moodle Wiki
• Wiki in Moodle 2.3• New features introduced.• Assists instructors to do a few tasks; such as
group lecturer notes, group project management, brainstorming, contribute to other wikis, and also collaborative storytelling
Moodle Wiki OptionsItem Moodle Wiki
Options Description I L1 Administration Allow user to delete page version or selected
pages. First page of wiki cannot be deleted√ ×
2 Adding more pages Type the name of the page inside ‘[[ ]]’, save, and then click the red link to create another page.
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3 View Allow user to display and view the wiki page/s √ √4 Edit Allow user to edit wiki pages √ √
5 Comment Allow user to see and comments about Moodle Wiki content
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6 HistoryAllow user to see what has been changed and restore previous versions by click the ‘Compare Selected” button.
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7 Map Allow user to see areas in Moodle Wiki. √ √
8 Files Allow user to access any files which have been added to the wiki.
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Learning Programming Course using Moodle Wiki
• Divided into 3 stages:– Basic stage• Basic knowledge and problem solving skills.
– Advance stage• Enhance their programming skills such as in object
oriented programming techniques and data structures– Applied stage• Capable to apply and implement the knowledge and
skills in real projects and in several subjects
Wiki learning planning
Java Programming course
Moodle Wiki
Knowledge Construction Contextual Application
Individual taskAssigned to develop a Java
Terminologies glossary. Students could add new, edit, delete and
retrieve the information.
Group taskAssigned to develop a Group
Class Project. Students could add new project, edit contents, delete
and retrieve the information.
Sample: 2nd year students in Faculty of computer Science and Information System, UTM.
Process of learning involved in discoveries
learning. Assist students to define, elaborate, edit,
annotated, summarized, and organized.
Process that can be track all works done in group,
starting from the planning, objective and all phases
Instructor become an observer and guidance in learner’s task
Knowledge Construction Contextual Application
Contents have been added
Contents have been edited
Label 1
Label 2
Contents have been added
Contents have been edited
Label 1
Label 2
Label 3
Results and Discussion• History Log have been observed and analyzed
Course name: Programming course
Time taken when access
IP address
Student’s name
Action/ activities
Version page
Results and Discussion• In order to analyzed wiki collaboration, it is important to
measure the amount of activity of all learners.– Active: consider as learners who construct the knowledge
e.g.: create new page, edit, add and comment– Passive: consider as learners who do the browsing e.g.:
view or reading Action Log of Moodle Wiki Numbers
Number of wiki pages 11Number of added pages 11Number of edited contents 42Number of views for contents 131Number of comments contents 20Number of registered users 10Number of registered administration 1
Results and Discussion• Leaners uses their full capability of sharing,
communicating and collaborating knowledge – produced complete glossary and collections of group project.
• Moodle wiki are able to activate learners participation.
• Moodle wiki become high potential tools in e-learning to assist social learning activities because the promising of collaboration and constructive work.
Conclusion
Moodle Wiki has been identified as a tool that support social learning activities. From the practices of Moodle Wiki,
learners can enhance their problem solving skills to make wise decision and invigorate their learning thinking to elaborate
knowledge. Besides, learners can also collaborate and construct work together with Moodle Wiki that will empower learners’ collaborative learning which contribute to cognitive
learning