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Using Wikis and Collaborative Learning for Science Teachers' Professional Development
Chen, Y-H.; Jang, S-J.; Chen, P-J.
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v31 n4 p330-344 Aug 2015

Many tools, such as Blog, RSS or wiki, have been widely used in this digital era to support teachers’ technology capability, instructional novelty as well as their ongoing professional development. Wiki, among other tools, stands out as an ideal technology to flip traditional classrooms (Fu, Chu, & Kang, 2013). Wiki offers great technological affordances for both students and teachers. It enables individuals to create and edit Web content on their own. Wiki also enhances fast publishing and sharing of information. The most highlighted benefit of wiki is its capacity of collaborative editing. Past studies have shown that wikis can facilitate numerous authentic, collaborative and reflective learning activities, which result in improved motivation and better achievement among students and teachers (Sigala, 2007).

Despite the benefits of wikis for education field that have been acknowledged, few studies have integrated wiki and collaborative learning to investigate the development of science teachers’ (TPACK). For this reason, the author conducted the study that aims at exploring the use of wiki along with the collaborative learning instructional approach and its influence on the teachers’ professional development viewed from the lens of the TPACK framework.

The result of the study showed that with wiki, science teachers could learn to create more understandable and dynamic science teaching content, and they collaboratively produced creative instructional strategies. In addition, wiki and collaborative learning assisted them to exchange and elaborate ideas related to the development of TPACK. It can be concluded that this tool works for science teachers to develop their TPACK. Future studies can be carried out with different participants, for example, language teachers.


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