Pascoe Michael, Monroe Forrest, Macfarlane Helen
Physical Therapy Program, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
Modern Human Anatomy Program, Department of Cell and Development Biology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
JMIR Med Educ. 2018 Jun 14;4(1):e16. doi: 10.2196/mededu.9197.
Wiki platform use has potential to improve student learning by improving engagement with course material. A student-created wiki was established to serve as a repository of study tools for students in a medical school curriculum. There is a scarcity of information describing student-led creation of wikis in medical education.
The aim is to characterize website traffic of a student-created wiki and evaluate student perceptions of usage via a short anonymous online survey.
Website analytics were used to track visitation statistics to the wiki and a survey was distributed to assess ease of use, interest in contributing to the wiki, and suggestions for improvement.
Site traffic data indicated high usage, with a mean of 315 (SD 241) pageviews per day from July 2011 to March 2013 and 74,317 total user sessions. The mean session duration was 1.94 (SD 1.39) minutes. Comparing Fall 2011 to Fall 2012 sessions revealed a large increase in returning visitors (from 12,397 to 20,544, 65.7%) and sessions via mobile devices (831 to 1560, 87.7%). The survey received 164 responses; 88.0% (162/184) were aware of the wiki at the time of the survey. On average, respondents felt that the wiki was more useful in the preclinical years (mean 2.73, SD 1.25) than in the clinical years (mean 1.88, SD 1.12; P<.001). Perceived usefulness correlated with the percent of studying for which the respondent used electronic resources (Spearman ρ=.414, P<.001).
Overall, the wiki was a highly utilized, although informal, part of the curriculum with much room for improvement and future exploration.
维基平台的使用有潜力通过提高学生对课程材料的参与度来改善学生学习。建立了一个学生创建的维基，作为医学院课程中学习工具的存储库。在医学教育中，描述学生主导创建维基的信息很少。
旨在描述学生创建的维基的网站流量，并通过简短的匿名在线调查评估学生对其使用的看法。
使用网站分析工具跟踪维基的访问统计数据，并分发一份调查问卷以评估其易用性、对为维基做出贡献的兴趣以及改进建议。
网站流量数据显示使用率很高，2011年7月至2013年3月平均每天有315次（标准差241）页面浏览量，总用户会话数为74317次。平均会话时长为1.94分钟（标准差1.39）。比较2011年秋季和2012年秋季的会话发现，回头客大幅增加（从12397人增加到20544人，增长65.7%），通过移动设备的会话数也增加了（从831次增加到1560次，增长87.7%）。该调查共收到164份回复；88.0%（162/184）的受访者在调查时知道该维基。平均而言，受访者认为维基在临床前阶段（平均分为2.73，标准差1.25）比临床阶段（平均分为1.88，标准差1.12；P<0.001）更有用。感知有用性与受访者使用电子资源进行学习的百分比相关（斯皮尔曼ρ=0.414，P<0.001）。
总体而言，维基是课程中一个被高度利用的部分，尽管是非正式的，仍有很大的改进和未来探索空间。
