Using Wikis to Empower Student Learning: Student and Instructor Perspectives

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Elizabeth Elzer, Student, University of Mary Washington
• Steven A. Greenlaw, Professor of Economics, University of Mary Washington
• Dean Shaffer, Student, University of Mary Washington
• Session convener: Brian Lamb, Teaching and Learning Strategist, The University of British Columbia

Abstract

This presentation reports on an experiment incorporating a wiki into a senior seminar in economics. The wiki enabled creation of a parallel universe outside the classroom, where students had as much power to define the universe as the instructor. The freedom provided by the wiki manifested itself in pedagogically interesting ways.

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