Open AccessStudents’ Attitudes Towards the Use of Wikipedia: A Teaching Tool and a Way to Modernize Teaching
Author(s) -
Đorđe Stakić,
Marija B. Tasić,
Marko Stanković,
Milena Bogdanović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
área abierta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2530-7592
pISSN - 1578-8393
DOI - 10.5209/arab.72760
Subject(s) - institution , modernization theory , sample (material) , mathematics education , higher education , computer science , medical education , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , political science , medicine , social science , chemistry , chromatography , law
This paper presents a research on students’ attitudes towards the use of Wikipedia in teaching. The sample was comprised of students from the Pedagogical Faculty in Vranje, a higher education institution affiliated with the University of Niš, Serbia. Students were assigned to write articles on Wikipedia as an alternative to writing their standard term papers. That way the Wikipedia content became significantly enriched. They positively evaluated Wikipedia as a teaching tool. The results confirmed that students preferred creating articles on Wikipedia to writing standard term papers. Those results may contribute significantly to further improvement and modernization of university teaching.