Using Wiki technology to support student
engagement: Lessons from the trenches
Source: Computers & Education 52 (2009) 141–146
Author: Melissa Cole
Speaker: Cheng-Yee Lee
1
Introduction
 Wiki
 editable website that is created
incrementally by visitors working
collaboratively
create
…
Visitor A
Page a
view
Visitor B
edit
Wiki
Page c
…
Visitor C
Page b
2
Introduction
 Objective of this paper
 Trying to integrated wiki in teaching
process
 Some favorite characteristics for
constructivist learning
 A fail research
3
Procedure
 Participant
 75 undergraduate students in a
information system course
 Pedagogy
 Lectures and seminars occurring on
alternate weeks
 Presentation of material now included
support for Wiki use
 Some exam questions are derived from
wiki
4
Procedure
 Obtain data in the following survey
2007/11
Questionnaire
to understand
use of the wiki
2007/12
Interview
to gain understanding of
attitudes to the wiki
2008/01
Questionnaire
to understand
familiarity with
social networking technologies
5
Result
 zero posts to the wiki after 5 weeks
 51 response had visited but had not
posted anything in the whole semester
6
Result
7
Result
 Students’ comments on wiki
 navigation and browsing aren’t the
easiest of tools
 there aren’t any useful guidelines or tips
that could be used
 I did try posting once but it would not let
me upload it
8
Result
9
Conclusion
 “If you build it they will use it”
 Not always in this case
 Pedagogy need to be modified
 Training is needed even students are
familiar with other similar technology
10
Comment
 Technology acceptance model
Perceive
usefulness
Intention
of use
Perceive
Ease of use
Actual
use
External
variable
11
Comment
 Their perceived usefulness, perceived
ease of use are low.
 They do not make student
concentrate on wiki, too
12
Comment

Rienties, B., Tempelaar, D., Bossche, P. V. D., Gijselaers, W.,
Segers, M. (2009), The role of academic motivation in
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Computers in
Human Behavior 25, 1195–1206



A similar paper with different pedagogy model
This paper is trying to inspect factors that influence student’s
behavior in computer-supported collaborative learning
The outcome is success
13
Comment
 Research method and result of
Rienties et. al. (2009)
 100 participants
 Asking them solve 6 tasks during the
whole semester
 The discussion have to be on the forum
 Produce 2307 messages
14
Comment
 But such Web 2.0 application on
education are almost Problem-Based
Learning
 Pedagogy model may be limited
15
Comment
 Perceived ease of use and usefulness
affect intention of use
 Equally influence procrastination?
 Relationship between procrastination
and intention of use?
16
Comment
 Research question
 The better the system, the lower
procrastination tendency that user has?
 The more user satisfies, the lower
procrastination tendency that user has?
 Is motivation factors more powerful than
TAM factors in predicting procrastination
tendency?
17
Comment
Perceived ease of use
Intention of use
Perceived usefulness
Self-efficacy
AMS
Procrastination
Task value
18
Comment
 Procedure
 Questionnaire survey
 Ask them preview chapter 2 via the elearning system, and held a exam at
next week
 Embed questionnaires with exam answer
sheet
19
Comment
Perceived ease of use
Original TAM paper
Perceived usefulness
Intention of use
MSLQ
Vallerand, 1992
你認為今天的第2章預習考
對你的重要程度是?
1/看完第2章的日期-考試日
期
Self-efficacy
AMS
Task value
Procrastination
20