History: aw1l 2.1 Introduction

Introduction

This experience is framed within the two projects (totally within the first, already finished, and partly with the second, still in active development) entitled:

1. "Design, implementation and evaluation of experiences of collaborative work in teaching experimental sciences"
   ("Disseny, implementació i avaluació d'experiències de treball col·laboratiu en la docència d'assignatures de ciències experimentals", AGAUR, Ref.: 2003 MQD 00167, also known as "UniWiki Project" - http://uniwiki.ourproject.org ; already finished).
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2. "Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the use of Wikis to improve the quality of the evaluation and tutorship of the blended learning and teaching"
   ("Anàlisi dels avantatges i inconvenients de l'ús de Wikis per millorar la qualitat de l'avaluació i tutoria de l'ensenyament i aprenentatge semipresencial"; ICE-UB, Ref.: REDICE04, also known as "UniWiki-Redice Project" - http://uniwiki.ourproject.org/REDICE0406 ; still under development)

New tools of collaborative work have been experimented in these projects (De Pedro et al., 2005), with several subjects and degrees, mainly from experimental sciences (Table 1). The degree of adequacy of the new tools and methodologies employed to writing up documents in group has been evaluated later on, in order to improve the performance of the students that they have used them, with respect to those that have used traditional methodology.

In this communication, qualitative results from the cited projects is shown, whereas most of the quantitative results are shown in another communication (De Pedro et al. 2006).