• DocumentCode
    548751
  • Title

    Editing the Wikipedia: Its role in science education

  • Author

    Mareca, Pilar ; Bosch, Vicente Alcober

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. de Fis. Aplic., ETSI de Telecomun. (UPM), Madrid, Spain
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    15-18 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    This paper describes and analyzes how the cooperation of Engineering students in a Wikipedia editing project helped to improve their learning and understanding of Physics. This project aims to incorporate to the first University Courses other forms of learning, including specifically the communication of scientific concepts to other students and general audiences. Students have been in accordance to say that with the Wikipedia project have learned to work better together and helped them gain insight into the concepts of Physics.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; computer aided instruction; engineering education; physics computing; physics education; Wikipedia editing project; engineering students; physics; science education; scientific concepts; university courses; Education; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Internet; Physics; Editing Wikipedia to improve learning in Science Education; Educational innovation; Web resources in Higher Education;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2011 6th Iberian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chaves
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1487-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5974194