Adding power to educational and research wikis with Semantic MediaWiki
Daniel Schneider & Julien Da Costa
TECFA, University of Geneva
Goals:
- Raise awareness of SMW potential for education and research
- Find other people interested in the subject
- Show what we have done so far
- Get some advice and have discussions
- Meet at Opensim/WikiSym 2014 ?
Hurdles
(Most) people cannot
- collaborate to commons
- use wikis
- understand hypertext
- change work by others
- track wiki activity
Opportunities for SMW
Improve
- task collaboration
- usability (forms)
- wiki collaboration
- data mgmt.
- activities mgmt.
Main tools:
Semantic Forms
Semantic Result Formats
Learning SMW
- First hill to climb wasn't too hard
- End-user tools could be improved, e.g. feedback when something goes wrong
- Lack of documentation for advanced stuff
Plans 2014
- Catalog on learning analytics tools
- Support for project-based learning
- Support for inquiry learning
- Improve textbook navigation and search
- More catalogs (including student made)
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Questions ?
Paper and slides available