"Contribution types" in Wikis - using Tikiwiki. Xavier de Pedro

Conclusions: Strengths


  • opportunities for self-regulation by students of their effort invested to develop the specific and cross competences
  • allows teachers to have quantitative data to characterize the contributions of each individual of a work group
  • means a substantial improvement with respect to traditional methodologies in the ability to evaluate student learning when teachers are not eyewitness of the activities
  • facilitates the personalized tutorship "at early stages", so each student can realize what aspects he/she has adequately developed, what other aspects have not been adequately developed (and remedy can be put in time)
  • allows teachers invest weekly less effort since the beginning (instead of a huge effort at the end) to supervise, validate or correct and feedback to student