Exploring my university students’ online learning activities in Wikis

Abstract

Students’ responses in an online learning environment serve as a powerful means to communicate feedback to instructors’ instructional design and facilitation of student learning. This study tapped on the metadata in wikis (supported by Google Sites) as online classroom data to investigate 72 university students’ online learning activities performed for their module weekly. The students were engaged most frequently in commenting and editing, but least frequently in updating and recovering files. Trends of students’ responses towards online learning over four semesters provided an insight for instructors to reflect on the appropriateness of their design and types of learning activities for their students.