Implementation, challenges and acceptance of wiki systems in veterinary education

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Autor/in	Kolski, Darius
Titel	Implementation, challenges and acceptance of wiki systems in veterinary education - surveys among students and lecturers.
Quelle	Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin (2017), 84 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2017.
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
URN	urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudissthesis000000106107-6
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Erziehung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Schüler; Schülerin; Handschrift; Universität; Dissertation; Tiermedizin; Vortrag; Student; Studentin; Deutschland
Abstract	Wiki systems are gaining importance concerning the use in education and medical science. They have great potential to enhance writing skills, to build a large collection of specific wiki articles and to shape and support a community of contributors and collaborators in university. Not much is known about the opinion of students and lecturers of veterinary medicine regarding the use of wiki systems, the active participation of students in form of writing and improving articles and their motivation to use wiki systems in teaching and learning. To establish a wiki system for veterinary medicine, Vetipedia.org was designed. Vetipedia.org is a German wiki system for veterinary students and practitioners. The access to the system is limited to veterinary students, lecturers and practitioners. The overall objective of the conducted studies was to evaluate if students and lecturers of veterinary medicine use wiki systems personally and in their courses, if they consider a veterinary wiki system as a useful tool for teaching and exam preparation and if they are willing to participate in writing and improving the quality of information. The first study examined the use and acceptance of wiki systems for students of veterinary medicine. A questionnaire was provided to students (n=210) of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Freie Universität Berlin with questions regarding the use of Wikipedia in general and concerning educational issues. Most students had widespread experience in the use of Wikipedia and veterinary wiki systems and are willing to use veterinary wiki systems as an information tool in the future. In contrast, the experience in writing or editing of information was low and only a few students are willing to write or edit content. Nevertheless, students consider the quality of information in a wiki system as correct. In conclusion, wiki systems are considered a useful tool to gain information, but the will to participate is low. The objective of the second study was to evaluate how lecturers of veterinary medicine estimate wiki systems in the context of teaching, if they would use them in courses and if they are willing to improve the quality of information. The data collection was done through an online survey using a five-point Likert scale. Lecturers of all German-speaking universities of veterinary medicine in Germany, Austria and Switzerland were contacted (n=approx. 1700) out of which 139 completed (8.2%) the survey. The majority of lecturers considered wiki systems as an appropriate and complementary tool for teaching. One third of the lecturers would use wiki systems for the creation of material by students, but most have not yet used them in teaching. One third is willing to participate in the review of articles with regard to their quality. In the third study a survey was conducted using exemplarily the wiki system Vetipedia.org on how students assess the reading, writing and improving of articles and the potential use of the wiki system. Participants in the 3rd and 4th year of study attended an elective course of the Clinic of Animal Reproduction (Freie Universität Berlin). They were asked to write a wiki article in German language as a required exercise. Afterwards they were provided with an optional questionnaire. Most respondents had no difficulties in writing an article and considered their articles to be good and understandable enough to be part of a preparation for state examination. They considered a wiki system to be a useful supplement to textbooks and they also read articles that were created from colleagues during or before the course. Nevertheless, most respondents were not willing to actively participate in improving articles or in voluntarily writing articles in the future. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that wiki systems can be used in veterinary education by students to access information and by lecturers to be included into courses. The students´ low motivation to actively write and improve content should be solved with a new concept of integrating wiki systems into university, which focuses mainly the benefits of a wiki system for students in university and profession like exam preparation and the availability of accurate information through a review system. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2018/2