AC 2012-3939: USING MEDIAWIKI TO ENHANCE MATHEMATICS LEARNING IN ENGINEERING SCHOOLS

The increasing use of the Internet as an educational source has led educators to come up with different tools and strategies to enhance the learning experience. One of the tools that has become popular in education is called a wiki. In this note, we present a study conducted in Guatemala where a small group of students started inputting data into a wiki, called WikiMatematica.org. One year later, we have about 2,888 visits per day, where only 2% of them are from Guatemala and the other 98% from other countries around the world. Given the high volume of visits to our website, we started collecting interesting data, such as most visited topics, demographics, and traffic intensity per hour. We use traffic intensity per hour as a way of how to use MediaWiki as a supplementary educational tool.