Using Wiki as collaborative learning tool in Public Schools of Nepal: FOR STUDENTS TO HELP AND SUPPORT STUDENTS IN THEIR LEARNING BEHAVIOR

Problem Statement The main reasons why student of rural schools are doing so bad in SLC board exam can be visualized in two perspectives. One is that, teachers support to students in their learning behavior (SLC-Courses) is not enough for students to overcome board exam in rural Nepal public school’s learning environment. Teachers lack good learning environment (medium) to reach and support individual students. Another perspective is student learn in isolation environment. In public schools of Nepal, there is not much of support for students regarding course material resources, public schools lacks library, text books, supporting documents for courses and also limited resources available for teacher. The motivation of students toward education is decreasing which is clearly shown by the result of board exam of 2006. The schools of those rural areas lack modern learning facilities computers, internet, effective teaching management and support. Also, students from one school cannot help students from another school or even from same school because of lack of good collaborative environment. Inter-school interaction is almost nil and inside same school also interaction between student and teacher (and student-student) is very less when compared to what T-S or S-S interaction should be inside general classroom. 1.3 Thesis objective The problems student walking distance from home-school-home which is around 2 hrs (average) per day, inter-school communication is almost nil, not so many skilled teachers available in rural schools, limited resources (for both student and teacher), student study in isolation environment, are the reasons which acts as a barrier for rural students of Nepal in their learning process. This paper will discuss whether, SLC-Wiki, a Wiki-collaborative learning approach can overcome above stated problems in rural schools of Nepal or not by mainly focusing on two questions, • Can this new collaborating learning environment act as a medium for teachers to teach and help teachers to support students in their learning process? • Can teachers be able to take student out of their isolation learning environment using SLC-Wiki i.e. can teacher support student collaboration? The ideal goal of this new learning approach is to make students self-dependent on their learning by creating a good learning pedagogic environment, so that the students can pass S.L.C board exam.