ISSS608 2016-17 T1 Assign2 Linda Teo Kwee Ang

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Abstract

“If you can’t beat it, edit it” This was mentioned in an article by Cornell University on how they embraced the use of Wikipedia as a teaching resource^[1]].Likewise, for this course ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications itself, we have been using Wiki to communicate and share course material, assignments, etc. Empirical studies showed that Wikipedia is heavily and frequently used by a large majority of university students to carry out different assignments and tasks (Wannemarcher and Schulenburg 2010) (Wannemacher, K.; and Schulenburg, F. 2010. Wikipedia in Academic Studies: Corrupting or Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning? ^[2]]

Introduction

In this study, the dataset was taken from a research project on factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education. That research project was based on an online survey of faculty members from two Spanish universities on teaching uses of Wikipedia, conducted in 2015 (Source: Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education by Antoni Meseguer-Artola, Eduard Aibar, Josep Lladós, Julià Minguillón, Maura Lerga, published in JASIST, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.^[3]]. There, the team had used Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to predict the “intention to use” and “acceptance of new information system”.

This study will aim to examine the dataset used for the above research project, and apply different data visualisation techniques to discover patterns.