Jess’ E-Learning Blog

I had a group work project for e-learning where we had to create a wiki about an e-learning subject. I thought that the processs of using a wiki would be new and different but I found that it was very similar to groupwork. The only difference for me was that we posted the assignment to the net instead of printing it out.

I think that this is happened for a number of reasons:

• Everyone in our group contributed notes to our assignment, but emailed them to each other instead of writing them on the wiki, so there was no writing on the wiki early on.
• Once we had written all our notes, we had one person write up the ‘assignment’ so that it would read with one writing style the whole way through.
• We didn’t post to the wiki until everything was written out.

So while it was collaborative, it wasn’t really an organic or synergic learning experience.