{"id":223,"date":"2005-06-18T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-06-18T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T16:45:09","slug":"networked_pedagogies_opensourc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/18\/networked_pedagogies_opensourc\/","title":{"rendered":"Networked Pedagogies: Opensourcing the Writing Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State has initiated a <a href=\"http:\/\/calper.la.psu.edu\/cmc\/wikis\/englishcomp\/Homepage\">pilot program<\/a> of 10 wiki-based composition classes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rihss.usyd.edu.au\/doyle.html\">Richard Doyle<\/a>, Jeff Pruchnic, and Trey Conner, instructors in the pilot-program discussed their experiences this morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/cw2005.stanford.edu\/\">the Computers &#038; Writing Conference<\/a> in Stanford. They found that students produce better work in a peer-reviewed environment. Grammar and mechanics are contextualized and there is greater motivation to create error-free work. Students read each other&#8217;s work, which forces them to consider their arguments carefully in order to avoid repeating someone else&#8217;s point.<br \/>\nThey also found that the self-governing ecology of the networked wiki format creates a fruitful environment for discussion and debate. The wiki places control over the direction and duration of the discussion into the student&#8217;s hands. Richard Doyle also pointed out that there has not been a single editing war in the years that he has been teaching the course. He attributes the lack of unproductive &#8220;flame wars&#8221; to the amount of work his students have. Each student produces about 100 pages of material and must read, comment on, and GRADE their fellow students&#8217; work. This is a learner-centered environment where, as Richard Doyle puts it, &#8220;the teacher acts as coach or zen master, making periodic interventions.&#8221; Doyle also points out that in these wiki-based courses, &#8220;students are learning how to interact in an information dense environment responsibly. They are being trained to deal with the fluid environments they are going to find themselves in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State has initiated a pilot program of 10 wiki-based composition classes. Richard Doyle, Jeff Pruchnic, and Trey Conner, instructors in the pilot-program discussed their experiences this morning at the Computers &#038; Writing Conference in Stanford. They found that students produce better work in a peer-reviewed environment. Grammar and mechanics are contextualized and there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,561],"tags":[2274],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences_and_excursions","category-education","tag-computersandwriting-wiki-classroom-education-pedagogy-collaboration-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}