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