Establishing an Innovative Plant Learning Platform with Expandable Learning Materials Using Wiki Software

Abstract

Currently, plant education in elementary schools is an insignificant part of Nature courses, and students learn only the basic knowledge of plants, rather than profound knowledge. This study aims to establish an innovative plant learning platform to help students gain knowledge of plants, as based on the instructional website of a wiki engine. Through the characteristics of wiki, it invites scholars in plant studies to edit plant data and design related tests on the platform. Students can check their knowledge of plants on this system by various platforms, such as computers or mobile phones. The keywords can be the characteristics of leaves, flowers, and names of plants. In the experiment of study, a pretest is conducted on students using the items proposed by scholars, and a posttest is conducted after the students used the proposed system. The results of the two tests were compared. This study anticipates that the proposed system can allow students to have higher interest in learning about plants, thus gaining more knowledge on plants.