The Wiki Way of Learning : Creating Learning Experiences Using Collaborative Web Pages

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Where to find it

Information & Library Science Library

Call Number
LB1044.87 .W488 2016
Status
Available

Summary

Given the limited budgets of schools, educators, and school librarians, free and open source tools for learning are more important than ever. Essentially, wikis are easily accessible webpages for creating, browsing, and searching through information, making them ideal vehicles for teaching and collaboration. In this pathbreaking collection, theoreticians and practitioners from a range of international settings explore how wikis are being used to create learning experiences in a variety of educational environments, from grade schools through universities. Offering numerous hands-on examples of using collaborative webpages with learners, this book gives teachers, educators, and instructor librarians

a theoretical overview of the concept of web-based collaboration and the social implications of the participative web written by Mark Guzdial, a pioneer in using wikis in education; an understanding of how wiki-engines function as a flexible tool for collaboratively creating, linking, revising and regrouping hypertext content; pragmatic guidelines for the educational use and application of wikis, including applications as e-learning management systems, informational resource libraries, online tutorials, maker community project creation, and digital asset file management; strategies for setting up a learning unit the "Wiki Way" and choosing the most appropriate and suitable wiki-engine in a particular education setting; and coverage of two different scaffolding models for learning scenarios which have been implemented and tested in the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and China.

Enabling readers to see how wikis' content and content creation processes can be harnessed for instructional design, this collection represents an important advance in improving education through collaborative technologies.

Contents

The wiki principle / by Beat Döbeli Honegger and Michele Notari -- Knowledge construction using wikis / by Johannes Moskaliuk -- Learning in the field of tension between public opening and openness / by Sandra Hofhues and Katharina Uhl -- How to collaborate using a wiki / by Michele Notari and Beat Döbeli Honegger -- Wikis in the didactics of science education / by Kuno Schmid and Paolo Trevisan -- Using wikis in project-based learning with groups of over 100 learners / by Michele Notari and Stefan Scharer -- How to use a wiki in primary education to support collaborative learning processes / by Manoli Pifarré -- Using a wiki for collaborative learning at primary schools / by Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Nicole Judith Tavares, Celina Wing Yi Lee, and David Wilck Ka Wai Leung -- Wikis as learning management systems for computer science education in intermediate and secondary schools / by Rebecca Reynolds -- Wikis in history education at the upper secondary level / by Alexander König and Jan Hodel -- The use of wikis in German secondary school teaching / by Beat Knaus -- Using wikis for school management / by Niklaus Schatzmann -- How to find the best wiki for varying purposes / by Beat Döbeli Honegger and Michele Notari.

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