@article{Yalvac2012,
	title = {Teaching {Engineering} with {Wikis}},
	volume = {28},
	issn = {0949149X},
	abstract = {In this paper we discuss the nature of five university professors' use of wikis in education and their personal epistemologies pertaining to wikis. A group of students collaboratively authoring a wiki article is an epistemologically different practice from students writing individual papers. A wiki-supported learning environment cultivates more student-centered pedagogies by distributing the power of knowing towards the students, which in turn may lead to a formation of a community of practice.Howand why professors use wikis in teaching are critical to explore for the efforts to cultivate more student-centered teaching practices in higher education. Study data are collected through individual interviews. Analyses revealed that participants used wikis to improve student collaboration, to reach an optimal solution to a given problem, to form an asynchronous and egalitarian learning medium, to have students negotiate and construct knowledge, and to have students work collectively. According to our participants, wikis provided a medium for communities of practice to begin emerging. However the communities did not fully develop because of the limited time within the course of a semester. We recommend any future studies investigate the ways to cultivate more sustainable wiki-supported learning communities. © 2012 TEMPUS Publications.},
	number = {3},
	journal = {International Journal of Engineering Education},
	author = {Yalvac, B. and Ayar, M.C. and Soylu, F},
	year = {2012},
	note = {ISBN: 0949-149X},
	keywords = {[Communities of practice, Communities of practice, Knowledge construction, Personal epistemologies, Student-centered, Wiki},
	pages = {701},
	file = {PDF:/home/fsoylu/Zotero/storage/7K74979X/Yalvac, Ayar, Soylu_2012_Teaching Engineering with Wikis.pdf:application/pdf},
}