Analysing Learning Through Mediawiki
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This document discusses using MediaWiki platforms to analyze learning through open educational resources and learning analytics. MediaWiki allows for verbatim reuse, adaptation, remixing, and redistribution of open content. Tracking user interactions through "paradata" like favorites, tags, and linked content can provide insights into learning. Learning analytics aims to measure, collect, analyze and report data about learners and contexts to optimize learning. Case studies discussed include using badges and analytics on Wikipedia to measure engagement and quality of contributions. Tools like Snuggle and WikiLyticscan help analyze editing patterns and quality. Overall, the document calls for using MediaWiki tools to support education and contributing to their development.
Analysing Learning Through Mediawiki
- 1. Analysing Learning through Mediawiki Simon Knight @sjgknight, user:sjgknight http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/
- 2. Open Educational Resources • Open Educational Resources (OER) – learning materials for free use and reuse
- 3. Open in OER Mediawiki provides facility for: • Verbatim reuse (copy or transclude) • Adaptation (of the page, or versioning) • Remixing (combine bits of content, through transclusion or copying) • Redistribute (widely available platform, export options to PDF, etc. ) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lego_DNA.jpg
- 4. OER & Paradata • Paradata – track use, not just hit counters but favourites, tags, lin ked content, etc. User characteristics also inform.
- 5. The learner side – who is interacting, and how? • learning analytics is “the measurement, collection, anal ysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs” (LAK11) – in informal, and formal learning contexts (LAK12
- 6. Why, What, How of LA • Why – we can capture data on/offline, if we can use this support students so much the better • What – attendance, social network/interactions, discourse analytics, dispositional analytics, grades, etc. • How – user submitted, learning platform trace (mediawiki, moocs, VLEs, etc.)
- 7. Use case: Badges in Scotland Specific areas the OBSEG will be considering include: • Learner Progress: achievement, attainment, employability, soft skills, recognition / accreditation of prior learning (RPL / APL), modes of assessment, linking to standards, access and inclusion, library / learning resources, MOOCs
- 8. Use cases • WMF – Wide range of Wikimedia based • WMUK – VLE badges • Beyond – mediawiki infrastructure education scope
- 9. The VLE & Badges • • • • Community v auto-accreditation What do we want to badge? Analytics as proxies (tag spotting, <ref> etc.) What tools can be appropriated
- 10. Use case: Wikipedia Adventure
- 11. Use case: Wikipedia Adventure Success metrics for project: • more edits? • longer engagement? • more article space edits? • fewer edits reverted?
- 12. Use Case: EduWiki Humphrey Southall: • Systematic data (templates completed) • Sense of place (local reference) • Expanding sources (adding references over article/provided) • Layout & illustration (headings, images) • Quality of referencing (citation styles, ProveIt, etc.) • Engagement with community (Talk, Summary, tagging etc.) • Adherence to guidelines (Reversions?, tagged) • Missing “” on quotations (search, etc.)
- 13. Tools • Snuggle: Support system for newcomers. Allows editors to observe activities of new editors and separate desirable newcomers (good-faith & productive) from the undesirables (bad-faith & vandals
- 14. Tools Wikiblame • Search article history for text • Establish when and by whom vandalism, copyright violations or promotional material was added to an article. • Find quotation adding editor to ask for inline citation
- 15. WikiLytics • WikiTrust • Collaboration Diagram (& deeper metrics) • Edit counts (or, edit size, or time spent editing) • Feedback Tool (with actions – “To improve the trustwothyness…”)
- 16. LA for paradata OER Potential: • What learner skills do you need to access this resource? • Who can help you with this resource? • What will you learn from this resource? • How can you contribute to this community? • What pathways do similar learners take to this resource?
- 17. So what? A call: 1. To Wikimedia people, to consider how tools can be used in education 2. To Educators, to consider using such tools, and contributing to their development
- 18. Thank you MediaWiki for OER and Learning Analytics Understanding learning resources, and learners Simon Knight @sjgknight, user:sjgknight http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/
- 19. • Intro to paradata/reflection on EduWiki conference http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledgecentre/blogs/wikipedia-education-and-tracking-how-knowledgeused • paradata may facilitate ‘linkedup’ OER – for personalised, connected learning repositories http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/findingknowledge-linking-open-educational-resources • Some ways of tracking open content in the wild – this is a key challenge for CC licence, measuring ‘impact’ http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledgecentre/blogs/measuring-impact-tracking-open-content-wild • OGL licence content and issues with PDFs http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/creativecommons-open-government-licensing-and-pdfs
- 20. Mediawiki context • http://en.wikivet.net/Veterinary_Education_O nline • http://edfutures.net/Main_Page and http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page
Editor's Notes
- #2: Philosophy & psychology (i.e. not particularly techy), MA in phil of ed, Mphil in research methods in ed, PGCE in social sciences (taught for a year), PhD at KMi in learning analytics
- #3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resourceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_OER.pngNote the wikiversity logo is NOT CC licence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiversity-logo-en.svg) http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content
- #4: http://opencontent.org/definition/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lego_DNA.jpg – CC BY/generic
- #5: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LEGO-01.jpg – public domainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradata_%28learning_resource_analytics%29CETIS report http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/808 https://github.com/edsu/linkypedia/wiki “The idea behind linkypedia is to help cultural heritage institutions that are putting content online to see how wikipedians are citing and annotating their stuff.”File usageThe following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):Open educational resourcesUser:DanielMietchen/Talks/Arbeitskreis Helmholtz-Pressesprecher/Options for collaboration between the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and WikimediaUser:DanielMietchen/Talks/Open Access in Poland 2012/Reuse of Open Access materialsUser:DanielMietchen/Talks/Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2012/Reuse of Open Access materialsUser:DanielMietchen/Talks/World Open Educational Resources Congress 2012/How Open Access and Open Science can mutually fertilize with Open Educational ResourcesUser:DanielMietchen/Talks/World Open Educational Resources Congress 2012/LicensingWikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Open Educational Resources (OER) LogoGlobal file usageThe following other wikis use this file:
- #6: ORBIT & EdFutures – good example of a page http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Teaching_Approaches/Whole_Class ORBIT – discovery (pedagogy based), course book, http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/creative-commons-open-government-licensing-and-pdfs
- #7: ORBIT & EdFuturesPDF, semantic drift, transcluding versioning, “adapted from”, use of formatting in pdf versions (And headings), ORBIT – discovery (pedagogy based), course book, http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/creative-commons-open-government-licensing-and-pdfs
- #8: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_Lego_Model.jpg
- #11: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Badgeshttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Education_sandboxhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_and_Open_Badges
- #12: http://www.openpraxis.org/~openprax/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/22
- #16: originally developed by Aaron Halfaker (aaron.halfaker@gmail.com) as part of his dissertation research.https://bitbucket.org/halfak/snugglehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/NOOB
- #17: originally developed by Aaron Halfaker (aaron.halfaker@gmail.com) as part of his dissertation research.https://bitbucket.org/halfak/snugglehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/NOOB
- #19: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiTrustWikimetrics https://www.socialtext.net/open/wiki_metrics StatMediaWiki http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es/manual_en.html http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2013/01/mediawiki-for-learning-analytics/http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2013/05/collaborative-information-seeking-on-wikipedia-talk-pages/
- #20: paradata may facilitate ‘linkedup’ OER – for personalised, connected learning repositories http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/finding-knowledge-linking-open-educational-resources
- #21: paradata may facilitate ‘linkedup’ OER – for personalised, connected learning repositories http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/finding-knowledge-linking-open-educational-resources