Research:The Transformative Potential of Wikipedia in Higher Education
This page documents a planned research project.
Information may be incomplete and change before the project starts.
Key Personnel
[edit]- Christine Trala
Project Summary
[edit]Creation of a organizational framework depicting how Wikipedia can be used to support, enhance and transform learning and teaching in higher education
Methods
[edit]Methods include direct non-participant observation of Wikipedia use in higher education classrooms, questionnaires for students and professors/lecturers, focus groups with students.
Dissemination
[edit]The work will be published as a PhD and I expect to publish articles along the way.
Wikimedia Policies, Ethics, and Human Subjects Protection
[edit]Not Applicable
Benefits for the Wikimedia community
[edit]The project will support Wikimedia Outreach Education and the research group.
Timeline
[edit]November 2011- November 2012: Literature review and trialing methods in Applied and Interactive Theatre at the University of Hull, Scarborough with Dr. Toni Sant.
Spring 2013 Co-author article of the use of Wikipedia in HE with Dr. Toni Sant
Funding
[edit]Institutional Funding from the Faculty of Education at the University of Hull
References
[edit]To be added as the PhD is written.
External links
[edit]Contacts
[edit]Christine Trala c.trala@hull.ac.uk