Research
Uses
Popular Wikis
Effects on Learning
Potpourri
100
According to the research most studies completed are from this age group.
What is college age.
100
Wikis allow students to work in teams and groups to complete an assignment or project
What is collaboration
100
This is the biggest wiki online
What is wikipedia?
100
According the research wiki assignments work best when the questions are _____________.
What is open ended?
100
These are the 2 most important buttons on a wiki
What is edit and save
200
In a study done by Rick et al. (2002), they found that thius group did better on the final exam.
What is the low editing group
200
This allows students to change the content of a wiki entry
What is edit?
200
This program is the least popular and reliable wiki generator
What is Qwikiwiki?
200
The factor based on classroom environment, effected the negatively effected the use of a wiki
What is competition between students
200
Adding these to your wiki can make the wiki more appealing to students
What is graphics?
300
In regards to the use of wikis in the classroom, this person enjoyed that the student could work as groups on a project online however glitches and problems with the wikis hindered that.
Who is the instructor?
300
These all wiki entries to be connected to like terms and ideas
What is hyperlinking
300
This is the main criticism leveled at wikipedia
What is source reliability?
300
The technical knowledge of the students will effect this frequency.
What is the frequency of edits and use?
300
64% of the studies in the research summary were found to be limited in this
What is duration?
400
This program was considered the worse wiki maker due to continued bugs and crashes
What is QwikiWiki
400
This site allows you and colleagues to add and edit topics.
What is a wiki?
400
What was the first page ever found on wikipedia
What is UuU?
400
These are the 4 things that can effect the students use of a wiki.
What is task, mandatory or optional wiki use, incentives, and relevance.
400
This ability makes wikis superior to email
What is the ability to edit and change content?
500
According to the research summary this area of research must be viewed with caution due to weak and quasi research methods.
What is the effects on student performance?
500
These 2 factors effect the usability of a wiki
What is software user interface and stability of the wiki
500
Wikipedia contains this many German Language articles
What is 1,560,000?
500
This classroom social environment will increase the effectiveness on the wiki
What is collaborative?
500
This major change led to the increase in valid factual articles on wikipedia in 2010.
What is requiring moderator approval before edits are visible to the public?