General Goals:

1. Improve the design of self-learning classes through dispositional and learning process analytics
2. Explore the affordances of Semantic MW and its extensions
3. Contribute to end-user programming practice
4. Contribute to using (persistent and larger) wikis in education
5. Implement some research tech and ideas (e.g. CSCL) with real tools
6. Test some ideas to try out with MOOCs

Specific goals:

1. Design and implement a course on psychological and educational foundations of EduTech
2. Make it low cost (little materials development, no tutoring)
3. Integrate with an existing multipurpose MediaWiki
4. Respect sound instructional design principles

Design of the class:

1. Each course topic is represented by a single wiki page
2. Each participant creates 3 concept maps addressing 3 central questions
3. Final maps must be presented with screencasts.
4. Each participant must peer-comment at least 6 productions
5. Max. 2 students work on the same topic
6. Provisional productions are attached to discussion pages
7. Final productions become part of the topic pages
8. Productions and peer commenting are evaluated at the end

Some (preliminary) results

Design

• Overall course design was appreciated by students
• Some content quality judged bad, .... but no students made big fixes
• 1/3 of the students were very productive, 1/3 OK, 1/3 behind
• Students use other tools to coordinate (that is normal)
• Underused analytics tools
• Badges (achievement steps) were mostly very appreciated

Some (preliminary) results (2)

Technology

• Semantic Forms and Semantic Results Formats worked ...
• ... steep learning curve, but easier than programming
• ... overall still to difficult
• SMW development tools are underdeveloped
• JavaScript code interaction problems in MW extensions
• Good potential for "extreme" instructional design