Wikis permit asynchronous communication and group collaboration across the Internet and are therefore widely used in various sectors and levels of education. With its idea of a potentially collective, democratic, open, and dynamic design of knowledge creation wikis enhance collaborative learning.
The European Project WikiSkills…
...provides opportunities for meaningful collaborative learning activities;
...promotes digital literacy, as well as social skills, writing skills and critical thinking;
...develops a sustainable virtual community of practice among the different project countries;
...enables educational communities to contribute to the actual information society;
...empowers civic behaviours, social inclusion, employability and cultural understanding.
There is one simple button that is the core of a wiki: the edit button!
In every wiki - just click on it and see what happens! Edit things and then just click save. And that's it! Like emails or blogs, wikis are very simple to use.
A wiki enables online-group collaboration and asynchronous collaboration
With wikis a group of people can collectively edit text. This text can be viewed and also changed by anyone who wants to contribute and has something to say about a particular matter.
Wikis can be used for many different purposes
Examples include community websites, corporate intranets, knowledge management systems, and note-taking.
1. Co-authoring
› Technical documentation
› Q&A
› Grant requests
2. Meetings
› Defining agenda
› Recording participant names
› Writing reports
3. Brainstorming & community of practice
› Gathering and publishing of good practices
› Discussions
4. Project management
› Listing tasks
› Completion status
A number of wiki platforms are available – MediaWiki, DokuWiki, XWiki to name a few – and each wiki platform supports a slightly different bundle of features to support collaboration.
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