A Wiki Collaborative Application for Teaching in Manufacturing Engineering

Abstract:

The interest of the present work is focused on the improvement of the students learning process through the use of a Wiki-like platform. In our research The Wiki was intended as a mean in order to make easier the learning project. During the academic year 2011/2012 the Area of Manufacturing Engineering of the University of Oviedo was involved in a project which aim was the creation of a Wiki. Nowadays this software is used as auxiliary material for other subjects that are given by the Manufacturing Engineering Area in those new Engineering degrees that have been created in order to adapt the studies to the requirement of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). According to the results obtained by the students, it can be stated that the higher the mark of the students Wiki the better his/her mark in the exam is.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 759)
• Pages: 11-17
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.759.11
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Eduardo Cuesta, F. Sánchez-Lasheras, Braulio José Alvarez, D. González-Madruga
• Keywords: Collaborative Work, Manufacturing Engineering, Wiki, Wiki Learning

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