Collaborative online writing assignments to foster active learning.

Autor: Olivo RF; Department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience [J Undergrad Neurosci Educ] 2012 Fall; Vol. 11 (1), pp. A82-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Oct 15.
Abstrakt: To help students master the content of a neurophysiology course, they were asked to participate in collaborative writing projects. In the first two years, students contributed to a class wiki by summarizing one lecture and editing summaries of several others. In the second two years, students worked in teams of three or four to write a series of illustrated chapters spanning the entire semester. The second assignment kept students more engaged than the wiki project, and although they found it a significant amount of work, they also believed that it helped them learn the subject matter. Working in teams, however, was not always a happy experience.
Databáze: MEDLINE