La WIKI en el Aprendizaje de los Estudiantes Universitarios de Ingenierías

Abstract

[EN] This paper presents an innovation research on promoting self-learning and collaborative writing in engineering university courses. The work is focused on the development of a course Wiki as the leitmotiv of the students activity. Students produce self-contained and reusable Wiki pages within the course framework attending to a suitable work planning. Additionally to help the student on the achievement of curricula, the Wiki is also available to the whole group in the form of self-study material adapted to the students group. Wikis provide teachers with potentially significant opportunities for creating socially engaged tasks that require active student participation and collaboration. Wikis allow students to carry out a collaborative writing stimulating reflection, knowledge sharing, and critical thinking. However, despite the potential capabilities of wikis, there is a need for a systematic process to the construction of this virtual writing space and the use of this tool for upper expectations in a deep real learning approach. The paper also reports on the evaluation of the approach by means of quantitative data collection.