Students' intentions to use wikis in higher education

Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften | Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbes. Informationsmanagement | Prof. Schoop

Students’ intentions to use
wikis in higher education
Christian Kummer

WI2013, 27.02.2013

Motivation

Problem Aim
Web 2.0 changed the way - Explain our students’ lack
that students search of motivation
for, obtain, and share - Engage and encourage our
information students to use wikis
Uncertainty about how to
integrate wikis into
classroom efficiently
- “Wikipedia in the mind”
- “Why don't they collaborate?”
Lack of empirical tested
research

27.02.2013 Christian Kummer| WI2013 Folie 2

Theoretical model


Survey

Setting Participants
Introductory course in - Economic study
information systems programmes
(“Einführung in die - 76 males/57 females
Wirtschaftsinformatik”)
- 93% under 24 years old
- 425 questionnaires were
handed out
- 245 questionnaires were Analysis
returned - Partial Least Squares (PLS)
- 133 questionnaires (~ 30%) path analysis using
remained after discarding SmartPLS
incomplete ones

Dataset
http://bit.ly/WI2013-Dataset (Open Access)


PLS path analysis model

Note: *** p < .001


Path coeffcients β, t-statistics, and
effect size

Hypotheses β t-statistic f²
H1 PU  BI .495*** 5.586 .202
H2 AR  PU .198*** 3.393 .114
H3 PT  PU .289*** 5.006 .195

H4 COM  PU .583*** 10.406 .497
H5 PBC  BI .368*** 4.072 .166
H6 FC  PBC .332*** 4.162 .114
H7 SE  PBC .355*** 4.223 .128
H8 SN  BI -.095 1.606
Note: *** p < .001; f²: small (f² = .02), medium (f² = .15), or large (f² = .35)


Practical implications

5 fact you should know about when using wikis
1. Don’t overestimate your impact on students
2. It’s all about the grade
3. Where they are - the digital natives? Or, it has to
be fun
4. Give support
5. It’s not the tool, it’s the task


Do not overestimate your
impact on students!
(Subjective norm)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4726892651/
Copyright: David Stroble, US National Archives;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennifertomaloff/4607084147/
Copyright: Jennifer Tomaloff;

It is all about the grade
(Anticipated rewards)

Where they are - the digital natives?
Or, it has to be fun!
(Perceived enjoyment)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/antmcneill/5709857490/
Copyright: Tony McNeill;



http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickwebb/3016498475/
Copyright: Nick Webb;
Give support
(Facilitating conditions)

It’s not the tool, it’s the task
(Compatibility)

Copyright: Steve Ryan;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniorvelo/4490511204/

What‘s next?

Research agenda Contact and extras
Further qualitative and - Contact
quantitative studies http://bit.ly/ckummer
investigating the role of … - Dataset
- subjective norm http://bit.ly/WI2013-Dataset
- Age - Slides
- Experience http://bit.ly/WI2013-Slides
Computer-supported
evaluation of wiki group
work?


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