History: aw1l 3.1 Results

Results

The opinion from the teaching staff about the advantages and disadvantages of the Wiki methodology compared to the traditional is summarised in Table 2.



On the student side, there where a total of 229 surveys and 223 autorecording tables collected of invested time (divided in methodologies and subjects in Table 3).



The extra comments voluntarily written by the students in their surveys in the blank fields (Table 4) show that, the students value very positively the collaborative writing methodology based on Wiki because:

• it allows them cooperating without travelling to meet,
• it allows them observing the development of their mates' work,
• it is a dynamic communication tool,

Some of them point out their interest in knowing new tools or the security to have their data on the Internet, (apparently) "free from accidents or viruses".

The negative valuation of Wiki methodology, usually comes from connecting problems to Internet o from the lack of time to learn the specific Wiki markup. Most of the negative valuations correspond to problems in organisation: too big or disperse groups, or work organised inadequately. A group declared that they lacked time to deepen at the same time in the three activities:

1. the writing work itself
2. learning the methodology of working in group
3. learning the Wiki technology

A count of the extra comments voluntarily written by the students in their surveys in the blank fields is shown in Table 4, classified by type of methodology and feeling. Some examples of each type of comments are included in the full version of this communicaction.