Creating Community through the Use of a Class Wiki

Authors:
Kirsten A. Johnson;Jamie Bartolino
Affiliations:
Department of Communications, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown PA 17022;Department of Communications, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown PA 17022
Venue:
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This study examines the use of a class wiki in a course offered to incoming freshmen at a college in central Pennsylvania. The wiki was used to supplement instruction in a classroom-based course. The study shows that the wiki was helpful in building community among incoming students, and also helped them to grow academically in the course. The class wiki also helped foster positive feelings toward the course as well as students' first semester at the college.