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A Social Approach to a Wiki Course Building

2021; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-62066-0_22

2213-8692

Carlo De Medio, Fabio Gasparetti, Carla Limongelli, Filippo Sciarrone,

Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods

Wikipedia has become the mostMedio, Carlo De used source of didactic materials with its immense number of Wiki pages,Gasparetti, Fabio freely available to anyone. Wiki Course Builder is a Web platform designed to help teachers building courses composed by Wikipedia pages only,Limongelli, Carla directly taken by the Wikipedia free encyclopedia.Sciarrone, Filippo One of the interesting and novel features is the Community module, that provides a collaborative environment, through a suitable Graphic User Interface, where teachers can interact with all the courses in the platform. The Community is a graphical visualization of the Wikipedia pages used by all the teachers in the systems, grouped in clusters, each representing a particular topic. Another characteristic is the information about the Teaching Styles of those teachers that have used that page in their courses. This feature has a twofold advantage. First, each Wikipedia page is tagged with the Teaching Styles. Second, this social aspect gives useful suggestions for possible extensions or changes in the courses. We present a complete use case showing the usefulness of the social Community environment to speed up and improve the course building activity.