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Agnesia Jeni Saputri; Ari Sunandar; Mahwar Qurbaniah – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
The Dayak Simpakng community in Batu Daya village, Simpang Dua sub-district, has knowledge of making plaits by utilizing plants in the surrounding environment. The introduction of woven plants to students needs to be done to preserve the knowledge and woven plants of the Dayak Simpang tribe. This research aims to develop an encyclopedia of Dayak…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Encyclopedias, Rural Areas, Indigenous Knowledge
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Frances Edwards – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2023
Wikipedia has been viewed as a dubious resource within higher education, and students are often encouraged to avoid its use due to the questionable rigour of its entries. In this study the tables were turned when Wikipedia became the central element in an assessment task. The task experimented with a new approach to summative assessment within a…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Web Sites, Educational Resources, Evaluation Methods
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Thomas, Paul; Jones, Matthew F.; Mattingly, Spencer – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
This paper outlines a creative Wikipedia-based project developed by the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries and the KU Biology Department. Inspired by the tenets of open pedagogy, the purpose of this project is to use Wikipedia as a way for students to learn about the scholarly peer review process while also producing material that can be shared…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Encyclopedias
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Park, Diana E.; Bridges, Laurie M. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2022
There is a common classroom refrain, "Don't use "Wikipedia"; it's unreliable." Unfortunately, this simple dismissal of the world's largest repository of information fails to engage students in a critical conversation about how knowledge within "Wikipedia" is constructed and shared. "Wikipedia" is available…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Information Literacy
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Aljawarneh, Shadi A. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
In the higher education sector, a new era has begun with the advent of ubiquitous learning environments. Ubiquitous learning tools allow improving context-aware as well as learning experiences by offering seamless availability regardless of location all the time. They also help in establishing effortless interaction between authentic and digital…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Internet
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Vetter, Matthew A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Research in rhetoric and writing has found that Wikipedia-based education allows for direct and transparent observation of practices and concepts related to writing process, research, social collaboration, and digital rhetoric while also providing opportunities for authentic writing situations. However, much of this literature has been focused on…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Writing Processes
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Di Lauro, Frances – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This paper brings to light the notable contributions of Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz (1977-2014) who enlisted her peers and students to help reduce the gender imbalance by participating in mass collaborative initiatives like edit-a-thons to increase the stock of knowledge about and of interest to women. Such projects, and the edit-a-thons that…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Collaborative Writing, Gender Differences, Web Sites
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Zureck, Alexander – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
The range of study programs in finance and the ways how to study due to place, time, and focus has increased in recent years. Students can choose what and how they want to learn. If someone finds an appropriate program he must decide to study face-to-face, online, or in a hybrid format. Finance is often a duty in business administration or related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Media Selection, Reading Material Selection
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Makhortykh, Mykola – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2017
This article examines how digital media interact with collective memories and teaching practices by exploring a selection of Wikipedia articles that describe the capture of Lviv by the Germans on 30 June 1941. This event constitutes an important episode in the history of Ukraine and a complex case of violence that produced several controversies…
Descriptors: Web Sites, War, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
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Abdulkarim, Aim; Ratmaningsih, Neiny; Anggraini, Diana Noor – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The relevance of the research stems from the need to construct literacy information technology in the 21st century learning. The essential idea of this article was improving students` information literacy through "Civicpedia" as a civic education e-learning media (learning material on website, e-dictionary, video, poster, valued story,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing
Gregory, Sue; Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2017
This article explores digital learner presence in various higher education degrees in a regional institution in NSW, Australia. Several tools used for online teaching are explored through individual research projects in relation to the learner's presence with the tool being used. It was found that a variety of online teaching tools provided…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Educational Technology
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Sassatelli, Roberta; Arfini, Elisa; Piro, Valeria; Zambelli, Laura – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
This paper describes and reflects on a teaching experience developed as a complimentary workshops to MA class on history, theory and politics of consumption. We used Wikipedia as a tool to consider the circuit of knowledge production in the Web 2.0 era, where consumers are no longer passive audiences but producers and consumers at the same time.…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing
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Meishar-Tal, Hagit – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
One of the most impressive phenomena in the creation and dissemination of human knowledge in recent years is Wikipedia, an encyclopedia written collaboratively by Web users. Nevertheless, teachers tend to oppose the use of Wikipedia by their students and question its reliability. This paper explores the perceptions of k-12 school teachers in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing
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Edwards, Jennifer C. – History Teacher, 2015
Internet users worldwide turn to Wikipedia, the web-based, open-content encyclopedia, for basic information on all subjects. There is much to concern an academic audience in the encyclopedia's prominence: bases for evidence are different from those used by scholars; no expertise is required to edit an article; the site is a target for…
Descriptors: Females, Activism, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites
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Baggaley, Jon – Distance Education, 2015
This article examines the current interest of educators in flipped learning. Although this concept has developed in the online and distance education literature over two decades, numerous current writers are attributing it to an idea formed in 2007 by two K-12 teachers in Colorado, USA. The mechanisms that generate such myths are examined, with…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Homework, Technology Uses in Education
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