Wiki Tool in Higher Education: An Australian Perspective

Issa, Tomayess; Issa, Theodora; Issa, Touma B.

Wiki Tool in Higher Education: An Australian Perspective

dc.contributor.author	Issa, Tomayess
dc.contributor.author	Issa, Theodora
dc.contributor.author	Issa, Touma B.
dc.contributor.organization	Curtin University in Perth, Faculty Curtin Business School, Australia	en
dc.contributor.organization	Curtin University in Perth, Faculty Curtin Business School, Australia	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-25T12:04:56Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-25T12:04:56Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to examine the challenges of and perceptions about promoting students’ learning, communication, and interaction via the Wiki tool in the blackboard platform. Wiki intends to sustain and advance students’ professional and personal skills, the former ones including reading, writing, research, information, critical thinking, decision making, technology, digital oral presentation, drawing (i.e. concept maps), teamwork, and languages, and the latter ones including motivation, leadership, negotiation, communication, problem solving, time management, reflection, self-management, and self-appraisal. Additionally, integrating Wiki in teaching and learning will improve students’ work performance, productivity, and self-confidence, as these skills are needed for not only the current study, but also the workplace in the future. Additionally, using this tool in teaching and learning, especially in the higher education, can bring some challenges to the lecturer and students, particularly in the presentation and marking. This paper will discuss the Wiki implementation in the postgraduate unit at an Australian university. The study results confirmed that using Wiki in the postgraduate unit at an Australian university enhanced students’ personal and professional skills; in addition, students learned and absorbed the new concepts and cutting-edge-knowledge of the ITS65 unit, i.e. sustainability and Green IT.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Tomayess Issa, Theodora Issa, Touma B. Issa, Wiki Tool in Higher Education: An Australian Perspective, [in] International Journal of Research in E-learning, Vol. 2 (1), 2016, Editor-in-Chief Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska, Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2016, ISSN 2451-2583 (print edition), ISSN 2543-6155 (Online), p. 11-27.	en
dc.identifier.issn	2451-2583 (print edition)
dc.identifier.issn	2543-6155 (Online)
dc.identifier.uri	https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/14274
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego	en
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	Wiki	en
dc.subject	challenges	en
dc.subject	perceptions	en
dc.subject	skills	en
dc.subject	postgraduate unit	en
dc.subject	Australia	en
dc.title	Wiki Tool in Higher Education: An Australian Perspective	en
dc.type	article	en