Wikipedia in Education: Acculturation and learning in virtual communities. (December 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Wikipedia in Education: Acculturation and learning in virtual communities. (December 2015)
- Main Title:
- Wikipedia in Education: Acculturation and learning in virtual communities
- Authors:
- Brailas, Alexios
Koskinas, Konstantinos
Dafermos, Manolis
Alexias, Giorgos - Abstract:
- Abstract: The present study investigates on the learning impact of utilizing Wikipedia's community in education. Today, many instructors assign their students editing Wikipedia's articles as part of their coursework. Participation in a cyber-community during an educational assignment exposes students to a brand new culture and netiquette, to a set of explicit and tacit rules and cultural norms. This requires students to internalize the embedded online culture in order to join the community — a form of acculturation which may cause stress, but which can lead to opportunities for growth, learning and development. By taking advantage of a virtual community, educators can literally bring a whole thriving community into their classrooms. The acculturation of the educational group into the culture of a hosting virtual community, through collaborative actions, conflicts and disturbances, results to the formation of a collective zone of proximal development: what the students' group manages to perform today with the aid of the community's members will be performed independently tomorrow. The formation of a virtual learning community through the procedural and structural coupling of two discrete activity systems opens a new space for participatory learning.
- Is Part Of:
- Learning, culture and social interaction. Volume 7(2016)
- Journal:
- Learning, culture and social interaction
- Issue:
- Volume 7(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 7, Issue 2016 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 2016
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0007-2016-0000
- Page Start:
- 59
- Page End:
- 70
- Publication Date:
- 2015-12
- Subjects:
- Wikipedia -- Acculturation -- Education -- Virtual community -- Learning -- Culture
Learning -- Periodicals
Learning -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Teaching -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Social interaction -- Periodicals
370.152305 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22106561/ ↗
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.lcsi.2015.07.002 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2210-6561
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- Legaldeposit
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