Students intention to use wikis in higher education

Contents

Included in this fileset are four files:

(1) the survey data,

(2) the related SmartPLS workspace,

(3) the questionnaire (in German; see article for English items) with coding scheme and

(4) the article.

Abstract

Although wikis have gained considerable attention in higher education, students are often reluctant to use wikis in formal learning processes. Unlike company employees, students are not often rewarded for their participation in wiki-based assignments. Therefore, students seem to be opportunistic and decide to adopt wikis if they fit their current situation and preferences. This paper adapts the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour to examine the situation in higher education classrooms. To better understand students’ decision to use wikis, we introduced an intrinsic and extrinsic motivation construct. A survey was conducted with 133 first semester students to test the proposed model. The results provide support for the importance of an intrinsic and extrinsic motivation construct to explain influence on students’ wiki use.

Note

This essay was published as Kummer, C. (2013). Students’ intentions to use wikis in higher education. In R. Alt & B. Franczyk (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2013) (Vol. 2, pp. 1493-1508). Leipzig.

The related dataset was published as Kummer, C. (2013). Students’ intentions to use wikis in higher education (ZA5683 data file, version 1.0.0) [Data file and questionnaire]. Köln: GESIS Data Archive. doi:10.4232/1.11514

Additional information regarding this paper are provided in my blog - see link above.