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Introduction of Remote Laboratory Technology
Published in Ning Wang, Qianlong Lan, Xuemin Chen, Gangbing Song, Hamid Parsaei, Development of a Remote Laboratory for Engineering Education, 2020
Ning Wang, Qianlong Lan, Xuemin Chen, Gangbing Song, Hamid Parsaei
Amongst the many common implementations of social computing, Wiki technology is a powerful tool that is useful in presenting collaboratively developed material in a customizable and easily approachable manner [109]. Wiki is a browser–server architecture software system used to facilitate collaborative tasks. Its common uses include group communication, intranets, documentation management and sharing, and publishing. In this system, users interact through Wiki software, a type of collaborative software [110]. Often a website runs a Wiki engine, which allows its users to edit its content and invites all users to edit any pages or to create new pages within the Wiki. A characteristic of Wiki software is that operations are conducted via only web browser by a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor without any extra plug-ins, which makes user modifications without intensive programming or scripting skills possible. Wiki software’s basic style looks like a web publishing tool (such as Wikipedia), but it can also serve many different purposes such as knowledge management, note taking, editing and maintenance of materials, and interactive discussion.
Knowledge Sharing Analytics: The Case of IT Workers
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2019
As already mentioned, the IT domain requires open communication among IT workers, individuals, and work teams, in order to share knowledge and create fresh innovative knowledge tacitly and explicitly. To this end, IT work teams use a variety of tools such as email—for basic communication, Document Management Systems (DMS)—to store, share, and produce documents and files, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portals—to share knowledge and documents, source control software—to enable working on a common source code, WIKI software—to elicit knowledge by the “crowd wisdom” approach, enterprise social networks—to manage the social capital and create communities of practice, digital forums\blogs\VOD libraries—where experts can share their experience, and, of course, collaboration software.23–26 Each of these platforms produces usage analytics that shed light on different habits of use, and can therefore be used as metrics for KSL.
Using wikis to investigate communication, collaboration and engagement in Capstone engineering design projects
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
To examine user contributions, the most populated wiki, as judged by number of page edits and page structure, from the 2011–2012 cohort was analysed in detail. The rationale for choosing the most populated one as a case study was as the wikis were not being assessed, only a motivated group would provide a contrast between engaged and less engaged participants (see further discussion of this in Section 4.) The most populated wiki in the 2011–2012 cohort was that constructed by the Spacecraft design group. Some of the metrics from the literature (see Table 2) were used to assess student engagement and some new metrics were proposed to describe contribution over time (see Table 4). A user identifier and edit time was recorded automatically by the wiki software for each edit. Each separate revision was counted, even if revisions were minutes apart. The content was categorised following the same categories as Judd (Judd, Kennedy, and Cropper 2010) – see Section 1.1. Members of the Spacecraft design team were interviewed to investigate their views on the utility of the wiki and the reasons behind their levels of engagement.