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As wiki usage becomes common in educational settings, instructors are beginning to experiment with student-authored wiki textbooks. Instead of reading textbooks selected by the instructor, students are challenged to read the primary literature and organize it for consumption by the other members of the class. This has important pedagogical advantages, as students are stimulated to take responsibility for their own learning and perform tasks similar to those in the real world. These benefits, however, come with an array of administrative challenges, including sequencing the material to be covered, and assigning other students to peer-review the submitted work. We are developing software to assist in this effort. This presentation discusses our experience with the process and the software in an advanced course on parallel computer architecture, where students were assigned to write supplements for each textbook chapter, describing how the theory covered in class was reali! | |||
zed in state-of-the-art multicore processors. | |||
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Experience with a student-written wiki textbook supplement
Edward F. Gehringer
Karishma Navalakha
Reejesh Kadanjoth
North Carolina State University
{efg, knnavala, rkadanj}@ncsu.edu
Abstract
As wiki usage becomes common in educational settings, instructors are beginning to experiment with student-authored wiki textbooks. Instead of reading textbooks selected by the instructor, students are challenged to read the primary literature and organize it for consumption by the other members of the class. This has important pedagogical advantages, as students are stimulated to take responsibility for their own learning and perform tasks similar to those in the real world. These benefits, however, come with an array of administrative challenges, including sequencing the material to be covered, and assigning other students to peer-review the submitted work. We are developing software to assist in this effort. This presentation discusses our experience with the process and the software in an advanced course on parallel computer architecture, where students were assigned to write supplements for each textbook chapter, describing how the theory covered in class was reali!
zed in state-of-the-art multicore processors.