Shared Authoring Environment in Academic Setting

Team work is an important training element of future software engineers. However, the evaluation of the performance of collaboration among individuals is very subjective. Meanwhile, how to effectively promote the collaboration in an academic setting is an even more challenging task. The lack of a common standard or method for the assessment is a practical issue in software engineering projects. With the rapid development of shared authoring environments, such as Wiki, more and more educational institutions are studying the adaptability of such kind of collaborative platforms. In order to study the applicability of adopting wiki-based shared authoring environments in software engineering education, we have proposed three major research questions. By solving these problems, we try to answer some of the most important questions in adopting shared authoring platforms in academic settings. .