wikis in teaching and learning

WIKI

What is a wiki?

A wiki is many things. Here are the key features:The ability to create and edit pages directly via a web browserA page history, and the ability to roll back changesA list of recently changed pagesSearch

The ability to create and edit pages directly via a web browser

A page history, and the ability to roll back changes

Recent changes

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Enterprise wiki?

Page, space and group Permissions Email notification Attachment search WYSIWYG Editing RSS Feeds Export to PDF File Attachments and versions Tight Permission control Slick interface

The Wiki Way

Work is done collaboratively on common wiki pages.

The Wiki Way

A wiki culture of openness and wiki etiquette is adopted by the users

The Wiki Way

Wiki pages replace documents

The Wiki Way

Wiki notifications replace emails

Wiki History

Ward Cunningham in 1995 Ideas from Apples 'Hypercard' product A new idea: A link to an empty page becomes a link to create the page The first wiki is still alive at http://c2.com The wiki was Ward's first attempt at programming in Perl

Wikipedia

Usage of Wikis

➲ Most large organisations

Usage of Wikis

➲ Probably all technical organisations

Usage of Wikis

➲ Many many others.

Usage of Wikis

➲ Open Source are thought leaders

The Hype is Real: Social Media Invades the Inc. 500

Research Conducted by:Eric Mattson (eric@ericmattson.com)

Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. (nbarnes@umassd.edu)

Research by University of Massachusetts

Dartmouth

➲Telephone survey of the 500 fastest growing companies in U.S.