Comments on: The Science of Spectroscopy: Collaborative curriculum development using a Wiki http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/the-science-of-spectroscopy-collaborative-curriculum-development-using-a-wiki/ transforming academic communities with new tools of the social web Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:25:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Stewart Mader http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/the-science-of-spectroscopy-collaborative-curriculum-development-using-a-wiki/#comment-84 Stewart Mader Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:47:21 +0000 http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/the-science-of-spectroscopy-collaborative-curriculum-development-using-a-wiki/#comment-84 Dan, One model I'm working with right now involves multiple faculty teaching a freshman level science course. Historically, the responsibility for teaching courses like these rotates to different people every year, and the content either gets "reinvented" every time new people teach, or carried forward sporadically based on whether the outgoing teacher is willing to share materials with the incoming teacher. Enter the wiki - if all the teachers involved put their materials on the wiki, they can then collaboratively build and refine the curriculum, enabling it to better keep pace with changes in science. The wiki can then serve as part of each person’s course materials, and can become a platform for in-class, student collaboration as well. Another model is to use the wiki to collect data from students which is then used to put lecture material in the context of that data to make it more "real" and relatable to the students. This can complement Just-in-Time Teaching (http://www.jitt.org) a teaching strategy which links a Web-based "feedback loop" with in class active learning. Here's the official description from Gregor Novak, one of the authors of JiTT, "Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. Students respond electronically to carefully constructed web-based assignments which are due shortly before class, and the instructor reads the student submissions "just-in-time" to adjust the classroom lesson to suit the students' needs. Thus, the heart of JiTT is the "feedback loop" formed by the students' outside-of-class preparation that fundamentally affects what happens during the subsequent in-class time together." The wiki can make a perfect gathering place for students to submit feedback and interact with each other in a more tightly-knit community. More ideas are brewing on my blog: http://www.ikiw.org (for a full list, click the "wiki" link in the list on the lower left side of the blog home page). Stewart Dan,
One model I’m working with right now involves multiple faculty teaching a freshman level science course. Historically, the responsibility for teaching courses like these rotates to different people every year, and the content either gets “reinvented” every time new people teach, or carried forward sporadically based on whether the outgoing teacher is willing to share materials with the incoming teacher. Enter the wiki - if all the teachers involved put their materials on the wiki, they can then collaboratively build and refine the curriculum, enabling it to better keep pace with changes in science. The wiki can then serve as part of each person’s course materials, and can become a platform for in-class, student collaboration as well.

Another model is to use the wiki to collect data from students which is then used to put lecture material in the context of that data to make it more “real” and relatable to the students. This can complement Just-in-Time Teaching (http://www.jitt.org) a teaching strategy which links a Web-based “feedback loop” with in class active learning. Here’s the official description from Gregor Novak, one of the authors of JiTT, “Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. Students respond electronically to carefully constructed web-based assignments which are due shortly before class, and the instructor reads the student submissions “just-in-time” to adjust the classroom lesson to suit the students’ needs. Thus, the heart of JiTT is the “feedback loop” formed by the students’ outside-of-class preparation that fundamentally affects what happens during the subsequent in-class time together.” The wiki can make a perfect gathering place for students to submit feedback and interact with each other in a more tightly-knit community.

More ideas are brewing on my blog: http://www.ikiw.org (for a full list, click the “wiki” link in the list on the lower left side of the blog home page).
Stewart

]]> By: Dan Karleen http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/the-science-of-spectroscopy-collaborative-curriculum-development-using-a-wiki/#comment-83 Dan Karleen Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:00:49 +0000 http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/the-science-of-spectroscopy-collaborative-curriculum-development-using-a-wiki/#comment-83 Thanks for the informative presentation. Will you say a few more words about models people are using to develop curricula from material associated with the wiki? Which models show promise? In particular, how will curricula keep up with the pace of change in wiki activity? Thanks for the informative presentation. Will you say a few more words about models people are using to develop curricula from material associated with the wiki? Which models show promise? In particular, how will curricula keep up with the pace of change in wiki activity?

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