NDLI: Active Knowledge Generation by University Students through Cooperative Learning

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Arribillaga, I.E.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of Deusto, Donostia (Arribillaga, I.E.)
Abstract	Social and cultural transformations caused by the globalisation have fostered changes in current universities, institutions which, doing an intensive and responsible use of technologies, have to create a continuous improvement-based pedagogical model consisting on communities. To this end, we propose here the adoption of the so-called hacker ethic, which highlights the importance of collaborative, passionate, creative as well as socially-valuable work. Applying this ethic to higher education, current universities may become Net-Academy-based universities. Therefore, these institutions require a new digital culture that allow the transmission of hacker ethic's values and, in turn, a Net-Academy-based learning model that enable students transform into knowledge generators. In this way, wiki-technology-based systems may help universities to achieve the transformation they need. We present here an experiment to check whether these kind of resources transmit to the students the values of the hacker ethic allowing them to become active knowledge generators. This experiment revealed the problems of such technologies with the limits of the scope of the community created and the non-so-active knowledge-generator role of the students. Against these shortcomings, we address here a Wikipedia-based methodology and discuss the possibilities of this alternative to help current universities upgrade into Net-Academy-based universities.
Starting Page	27
Ending Page	32
File Size	222620
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424429295
DOI	10.1109/ITICT.2008.4806637
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-12-16
Publisher Place	Egypt
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Globalization Educational technology Wikipedia Cultural differences Ethics Human Capital Development Computer hacking Collaboration Educational Technology Collaborative work Internet Collaborative Technologies Context modeling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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