Fostering Collaboration and Benefiting from Blurred Boundaries Between Students and Academics

This case study has been developed from data gathered through observations of the teaching component; interviews with the tutor; a questionnaire to students and a student focus group.

This case study presents evaluations of two distinct uses of Web 2.0 or social networking applications in teaching electronic and computer engineering: the use of a wiki during exam revision so that students can work collaboratively on answering past questions; and the use of Twitter a wiki and online learning logs as tools to facilitate project supervision.