(to be contributed by University of Cape Town)
Actors
- Phumzile is the course convenor for a 3rd-year undergraduate course in Economics of Developing Countries.
- Reza is one of 10 tutors teaching on the course, responsible for a tutor group of 12 students.
- Susan, Bongani and Jonathan are students in Reza's tutor group.
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Phumzile requires students, working in groups of 3, to choose one of 4 developing countries (Brazil, India, Nigeria and South Africa) and write together an assessment of that country's economic progressdevelopment over the last 3 decades.
Phumzile decides that a wiki would be an appropriate tool to facilitate students collaboratively writing their assessments. Previously this type of exercise had been done with Word documents using track changes, but that required lots of emailing revised documents around, and made it hard for students to work on their group assignments at the same time.
Setup
As the course already has a course site created for it in the Sakai environment, Phumzile creates a template wiki with some instructions about the assignment on the home page, and then creates 12 wikis (one for each tutor group) from the template wiki.
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