Help:Educators Guide

For educators Physiopedia offers an opportunity to involve their students in this knowledge creation process as part of an educational program.  This guide will outline how you could use this wiki in your course.

How to use this wiki in your course

It is anticipated that educators will engage their students to contribute to Physiopedia as part of their learning and/or revision process.  Students can be tasked to complete

research specific topics and then record their findings by adding or editing content within physiopedia.Using Physiopedia will result in both advancing your student's knowledge and add useful content to this global physiotherapy resource.

The students will be dealing with a real world situation, which is not only more educational but also gives the students more purpose for completing the task which makes it more interesting, probably resulting in increased dedication as their effort might remain online for reference.

Ideas for tasks

• Group assignments - page revision history allows the tutor to monitor contributions and observe development of the assignment and individual contributions. This can be done throughout the writing process so issues can be spotted and feedback given before the submission of the assignment (e.g. a non-participating student can be contacted, a lack references to evidence addressed, an error in direction corrected). 
  
• Group debates - these can be held in the dedicated 'Talk' pages related to each page in the wiki.  These 'Talk' pages are accessed by clicking on the 'Discussion' tab from the page that you want to discuss.  Opposing positions can be argued and evidence presented.
  
• Subject glossary - individuals/groups of students assigned responsibility for creating definitions for identified terms to build an extending subject glossary overtime. Wiki functionality means this glossary can be subject to continual peer review.
• Peer review of assignments during their creation - students assigned to guide other students during the process of creating their individual assignments. Marks can then be assigned for the contributions they make to their peers, recorded within the assignment wiki page revision history.
• Individual portfolios - these can be created from an individuals profile page.  The flexible nature of wiki's allows an individual to be very creative in their personal portfolio creation and also allows very flexible portfolio mentoring.