USAB '08 Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for Education and Work
Analyzing collaborative learning activities in wikis using social network analysis
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards Universal Access to Home Monitoring for Assisted Living Environment
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part II: Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments
Heuristics for Implementation of Wiki Technology in Higher Education Learning
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
The benefits of Geo-Tagging and microblogging in m-Learning: a use case
Proceedings of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era
A Collaborative Environment for the Design of Accessible Educational Objects
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Interactive technology for enhancing distributed learning: a study on weblogs
Proceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology
Enhancing Wikipedia Editing with WAI-ARIA
USAB '09 Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion
OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
Feedback mechanisms and their impact on motivation to contribute to wikis in higher education
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
TransWiki: supporting translation teaching
ICT-EurAsia'13 Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Information and Communication Technology
Computers in Human Behavior
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Wikis are a website technology for mass collaborative authoring. Today, wikis are increasingly used for educational purposes. Basically, the most important asset of wikis is free and easy access for end users: everybody can contribute, comment and edit—following the principles of Universal access. Consequently, wikis are ideally suited for collaborative learning and a number of studies reported a great success of wikis in terms of active participation, collaboration, and a rapidly growing content. However, the wikis success in education was often linked either to direct incentives or even pressure. This paper strongly argues that this contradicts the original intentions of wikis and, furthermore, weakens the psycho-pedagogical impact. A study is presented which focuses on investigating the success of wikis in higher education, when students are neither enforced to contribute nor directly rewarded similar to the principles of Wikipedia. Amazingly, the results show that, in total, none of the N = 287 students created new articles or edited existing ones during a whole semester. It is concluded that the use of Wiki-Systems in educational settings is much more complicated, and it needs more time to develop a kind of “give-and-take” generation.