Wikis

We Are Smarter Than Me

November 17, 2006

More Than a Million Invited to Write and Edit First Collaborative Book on Management Best Practices. ‘Taking a page from Wikipedia, publishing giant Pearson, under its Wharton School Publishing imprint, has embarked on a new book publishing project with two innovative collaborators that could involve thousands, if not tens of thousands of authors and editors. [...]

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Wikispaces: 100 000 Free Wikis for K-12 Teachers

November 1, 2006

A very nice offer from Wikispaces: 100,000 Wikis in the Classroom. ‘Back in January, we decided to offer our Plus Plan to K-12 teachers for free. We didn’t set out with a grand strategy, just an interest in helping teachers with our easy to use wiki technology. Over 10,000 educational wikis later, we’ve heard countless [...]

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NoteMesh – Wiki for Student Notes

October 15, 2006

NoteMesh – Collaborate to Graduate. ‘NoteMesh is a free service that allows college students in the same classes to share notes with each other. It works by creating a wiki for individual classes that users can edit. Users are free to post their own lecture notes or contribute to existing lecture notes. The idea is [...]

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Social Software in Learning and Teaching

August 27, 2006

Innovate: Teaching Social Software with Social Software. ‘Ulises Mejias examines how social software—information and communications technologies that facilitate the collaboration and exchange of ideas—enables students to participate in distributed research, an approach to learning in which knowledge is collectively constructed and shared. During Fall 2005, Mejias taught a graduate seminar that provided students with hands-on [...]

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Wiki Version of E-Learning: A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices

August 9, 2006

WikiEdProfessional eLearning Guidebook. ‘The Commonwealth Education Media Center for Asia (CEMCA) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) recently published the 2nd revised edition of E-Learning. A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices. This guidebook has been developed by Som Naidu of the University of Melbourne, Australia in close consulation with Sanjaya Mishra of Indira Gandhi [...]

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Wikis and Online Collaboration

August 7, 2006

SirsiDynix Institute Web Seminar: Wiki: The Ultimate Tool For Online Collaboration by Meredith Farkas. ‘Wiki is a social software tool that allows for unprecedented online collaboration. It enables a group of people to collaboratively develop a Web site with no knowledge of HTML or other markup languages. Any member of the wiki community can add [...]

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Educational Wikis

June 23, 2006

Teaching and learning online with wikis. ‘Wikis are fully editable websites; any user can read or add content to a wiki site. This functionality means that wikis are an excellent tool for collaboration in an online environment. This paper presents wikis as a useful tool for facilitating online education. Basic wiki functionality is outlined and [...]

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

April 6, 2006

Open Educational Resources (OER): open content for higher education. ‘This site is a place where members of the IIEP Open Educational Resources Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. This list of links to OER initiatives, resources and tools was compiled following the first IIEP discussion forum on Open Educational Resources (24 October [...]

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