Tracing knowledge co-evolution in a realistic course setting: A wiki-based field experiment

Kump, Barbara; Moskaliuk, Johannes; Dennerlein, Sebastian Maximilian; Ley, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2013.06.015

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“…Research conducted on confirming the theorised co-evolution processes has produced promising results by analysing learning outcomes on individual and collaborative levels in wiki-based environments. Positive effects on processes of co-evolution of knowledge and individual learning have been reported with regard to incongruities between information sources (Kimmerle et al, 2011;Moskaliuk et al, 2009), positive effects between internal and external accommodation and assimilation processes (Kump et al, 2013;Moskaliuk et al, 2009) and on the polarity of information and redundancy of prior knowledge (Moskaliuk et al, 2012). These studies provided evident support for the co-evolution in wiki-based learning, but specifically addressed the construction of knowledge artefacts on the article level of wikis.…”

Section: Knowledge Building and Co-evolutionmentioning

confidence: 71%

“…General processes of accommodation and assimilation that are triggered by conflicting knowledge have been identified in both systems (Kimmerle et al, 2011;Kump et al, 2013;Moskaliuk et al, 2009Moskaliuk et al, , 2012. In wiki-related research to date, individual differences regarding the processing of ambiguous information and new perspectives in controversial discussions have not been reported.…”

Section: Individual Cognitive Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Heimbuch

Bodemer

2017

The Internet and Higher Education

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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 analysed 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.

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Section: Knowledge Building and Co-evolutionmentioning

confidence: 71%

Section: Individual Cognitive Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Heimbuch

Bodemer

2017

The Internet and Higher Education

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“…The search for a clearer and more specific definition is, we believe, responsible for the elimination of dubious expressions or buzzwords 9 . In some changes made to the article, this attempt to promote clarification is explicitly stated, as in 21 November 2011, where the segment "that facilitates machines to understand the semantics, or meaning, of information on the World Wide Web" was taken from the definition and classified as "obscure" 10 .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In the case of Wikipedia, the massive number of collaborators (more than 32 million registered users 1 ) contributes to the hypothesis that it is the most comprehensive project in the scope of Digital Humanities [3]. Its dynamics make it used as a field for investigation of the interaction between humans and computational artefacts under several foci, such as sociological [4,5], informational [6,7], or educational [8,9]. A systematization of the research areas of studies related to Wikipedia can be found in Tramullas' work [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia: An Exploratory Approach to Study the Collective Conceptualization in a Digital Collaborative Environment

2018

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Wikipedia, as a “social machine”, is a privileged place to observe the collective construction of concepts without central control. Based on Dahlberg’s theory of concept, and anchored in the pragmatism of Hjørland—in which the concepts are socially negotiated meanings—the evolution of the concept of semantic web (SW) was analyzed in the English version of Wikipedia. An exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative study was designed and we identified 26 different definitions (between 12 July 2001 and 31 December 2017), of which eight are of particular relevance for their duration, with the latter being the two recorded at the end of the analyzed period. According to them, SW: “is an extension of the web” and “is a Web of Data”; the latter, used as a complementary definition, links to Berners-Lee’s publications. In Wikipedia, the evolution of the SW concept appears to be based on the search for the use of non-technical vocabulary and the control of authority carried out by the debate. As a space for collective bargaining of meanings, the Wikipedia study may bring relevant contributions to a community’s understanding of a particular concept and how it evolves over time.

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“…This model was refined and tested in later work [9][10][11][12][13]. Besides this, other approaches were made to the study of collective knowledge construction or collaborative learning [10,[14][15][16][17]. In another perspective, some comparative studies are also mentioned by the points of contact with the present study:…”

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The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia: An Exploratory Approach to Study the Collective Conceptualization in a Digital Collaborative Environment

Machado¹,

Borges²,

Souza³

2018

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Wikipedia, as "social machine", is a privileged place to observe the collective construction of concepts without central control. Based on Dahlberg's theory of concept, and anchored in the pragmatism of Hjørland - in which the concepts are socially negotiated meanings - the evolution of the concept of Semantic Web (SW) was analyzed in the English version of Wikipedia. An exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study was designed and we identified 26 different definitions (between 7-12-2001 and 12/31/2017) of which 8 are of particular relevance for their duration, with the latter being the two recorded at the end of the analyzed period. According to them, SW: "is a extension of the web"and "is a Web of Data"; the latter, used as a complementary definition, links to Berners-Lee's publications. In Wikipedia, the evolution of the SW concept appears to be based on the search for the use of non-technical vocabulary and the control of authority carried out by the debate. As a space for collective bargaining of meanings, the Wikipedia study may bring relevant contributions to a community's understanding of a particular concept and how it evolves over time.

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Tracing knowledge co-evolution in a realistic course setting: A wiki-based field experiment

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

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

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

The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia: An Exploratory Approach to Study the Collective Conceptualization in a Digital Collaborative Environment

The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia: An Exploratory Approach to Study the Collective Conceptualization in a Digital Collaborative Environment

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