Controversy awareness on evidence-led discussions as guidance for students in wiki-based learning

Wikis mainly distribute user-generated content over the article and its corresponding talk page. While educational research provides article-related suggestions for learner's support, research has rarely analyzed the potentials of supporting learning-related processes at the talk page level. Wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Internet and higher education Jg. 33; S. 1 - 14
Hauptverfasser: Heimbuch, Sven, Bodemer, Daniel
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Inc 01.04.2017
Schlagworte:
Collaborative writing environment
Individual learning
Knowledge construction
Representational guidance
Wiki
Knowledge construction
Wiki
Collaborative writing environment
Individual learning
Representational guidance
ISSN:1096-7516, 1873-5525
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Zusammenfassung:Wikis mainly distribute user-generated content over the article and its corresponding talk page. While educational research provides article-related suggestions for learner's support, research has rarely analyzed the potentials of supporting learning-related processes at the talk page level. With the presented experiment, we address this issue by investigating effects of visual controversy awareness information on content-related discussion threads. Such information can induce socio-cognitive conflicts which research assumes to be beneficial for learning, particularly when contradictory evidence leads Wiki discussions. We investigated how controversy awareness highlighting as implicit guidance directs students' (N=81) navigation and learning processes as wells as their internalized knowledge representations. Results indicate that the implementation of controversy awareness representations helped students to focus on selecting meaningful discussion threads. Our findings suggest that Wiki talk page users can benefit from additional structuring aids and increase their learning outcome when being aware of occurring controversies. •Implicit guidance for individual learning in Wiki environments is investigated.•Visualizations are implemented as navigational aid on an article's discussion page.•Highlighting provides awareness information about evidence-led controversies.•Representations affect students' individual behavior beyond the discussion page.•Positive effects of awareness highlighting on learning and quality are discussed.
ISSN:1096-7516
1873-5525
DOI:10.1016/j.iheduc.2016.12.001