Wikis Collaborative Learning for CS Education Edward F. Gehringer North Carolina State University Dept. of Computer Science Raleigh, NC 27695-7256 +1 919-515-2066 Lillian Cassel Villanova University Computing Sciences Villanova, PA 19085 +1 610 519-7310 Katherine Deibel University of Washington Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engineering Seattle, WA 98195-2350 +1 206 616-7046 efg@ncsu.edu cassel@acm.org William Joel Western Connecticut State Univ. Center for Graphics Research 181 White St. Danbury, CT 06810 +1 203 837-9350 deibel@cs.washington.edu joelw@wcsu.edu SUMMARY Wikis may be on track to take the academic world by storm. Though researchers have used them as collaborative tools for more than a decade, it is only in the past year or two that they have become widespread in education. Of the articles published by SIGCSE on wikis, nearly two-thirds (30 out of 46) of them gave appeared since the beginning of 2006. References to wikis in the educational database ERIC are approximately doubling each year.1 What is it about wikis that has suddenly made them so attractive? Among other things, it is the fact that collaboration becomes so easy. Students have the opportunity to revise each other s work without the need to send documents back and forth. Because an edit
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Wikis: collaborative learning for cs education
Gehringer, Edward F.; Cassel, Lillian; Deibel, Katherine; Joel, William
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, Volume 40 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 29, 2008
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