Where is the wiki in wiki?

Abstract

This is a small scale case study of a group of graduate students exploring the use of wiki for meaningful interaction and learning community-building. The wiki was used to facilitate communication, cooperative work and to support each other to reach the course assignment objectives and goals. A general analysis of the wiki reveals that while the students were highly interactive in the discussion and comments part of the wiki, the real publishing of content and editing were found lacking in this group interaction. However, though there were lacking activities in the new page creation and editing, the interaction among the students in the comment's section was found to be highly engaging and meaningful, exhibiting the substantial amount of in-depth level processing while a reasonable amount of cognitive and meta-cognitive skills were present. Other issues were also highlighted and discussed. © 2009 Arafeh Karimi and Helena S.Y.Song.