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Development of a Shared Learning Wiki in an Inteprofessional Context.
journal contribution
posted on 2018-03-13, 13:51 authored by Melanie StephensMelanie Stephens, Leslie RobinsonLeslie Robinson, Denis McGrathThis paper discusses the use of a wiki for student radiographers and
nurses building on an inter-professional learning experience in the
context of Problem Based Learning. The aim of the wiki was to facilitate
an on-going learning environment for students who had met once and
would not be meeting again. 120 third-year nursing diploma students and
50 second-year radiography undergraduates were provided with a PBL
trigger related to a patient with acute stroke. The students met once,
in five mixed-discipline groups, following one week of working
individually on the PBL outcomes for the trigger. The meeting included
discussion around the role of the professions and the outcomes for the
trigger. Further learning was enabled through the provision of one wiki
for each of the five groups. The students had four weeks to complete
their wikis during which time no group could see or edit the other
groups’ wikis. At the end of this period the wikis were made visible to
all students for group peer assessment. Wiki editing skills were
provided through the use of peer ‘wiki champions’ who cascaded training
to the rest of their group. Validated and published wiki evaluation
models are sparse. We therefore developed a qualitative and quantitative
evaluation tool looking at process (student contribution) and outcome
(the value, to the students, of the wiki pages produced) based around
our aims and the underpinning pedagogies of constructivist and
inter-professional learning.