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The Division of Wiki Labor: Wikis in the Working World

Dashe & Thomson

A better option, and one that is being increasingly adopted in the higher education sphere, is a combination of outside training with a user-dir ected wiki template. Further, work is constantly updateable and subject to review and revision by one’s colleagues. .

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TCC09: Wikis that Work: Effective Wiki Practices for Virtual Learning Communities

Experiencing eLearning

In this session, we will share a collaborative wiki created by a self-organized, self-managed group of online graduate students. We will discuss our observations and recommendations for using wikis as a collaborative learning tool. Define wiki. 60% used collaborative authoring (wiki). What is a wiki.

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TCC08: Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why?

Experiencing eLearning

Wikis as classic example of collaborative tool. Gave an example of faculty handbook created with wiki (using MediaWiki). Wikis make it very clear who did what–always a problem with group work for grading. Students learn how to judge the stability of information & collective intelligence through using a wiki.

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Wikis in eLearning 2.0

Learning with e's

social media can, and are being used to enhance, extend and enrich learning in higher education. Another stand out paper in the issue is an exploration by Karasavvides of the use of wikis in higher education, and the attendant barriers and difficulties that need to be overcome for full acceptance and embedding into the learning process.

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The Fusion of User-Generated Content and Social Learning: Changing the Face of Education

eLearning Company

This content can come in various forms such as blog posts, wikis, discussions, posts, chats, tweets, podcasting, pins, digital images, video, audio … Continue reading "The Fusion of User-Generated Content and Social Learning: Changing the Face of Education" The post The Fusion of User-Generated Content and Social Learning: Changing the Face of (..)

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How to Make Wikis Part of Your Training Program

Mindflash

With the Encyclopedia Britannica abandoning its 244-year-old printed version in response to the dominance of Wikipedia, and Britain’s education minister calling for a “wiki approach” to designing the curriculum for schools, wikis deserve a role in employee training and learning. The case for wikis.

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Growing Use of Social Media in Education

LearnDash

However, its use is rapidly expanding into the educational sector. Each year, Pearson Learning Solutions puts out the results of an annual survey of social media use in education. Across the board, educators are using social media more in 2013 than they did in 2012. Still, despite the possibility of distractions, 78.9%