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There are growing expectations among college students to be able to access and manage their course materials over the World Wide Web. In its early days, faculty would create web pages by hand for posting this information. As Internet technologies and access have matured over the past decade, course and learning management systems such as Blackboard and Web CT have become the norm for distributing such materials. In today’s Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information. Because of a wiki’s collaborative nature, its use also allows students to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation. Using examples from an information technology classroom, this paper describes several ways to structure and use a wiki as a course management tool, and shares results of a student survey on the effectiveness of such an approach on student learning.
Keywords: Wiki, Course Management, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Content Creation, Student Learning.
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A wiki allows users to create, post, edit, or delete web pages, thus promoting collaboration among its users. As such, a wiki is a useful tool for involving students in the process of creating and sharing course content. While course management systems have specialized features such as online grade books and exams, useful exclusively in academic environments, students are unlikely to encounter such applications outside of a college classroom. By introducing a wiki for collaborative course management, students also learn to interact with a real world tool, enabling them to accomplish some tasks that would be more cumbersome if not impossible using a traditional course management system.
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Because students and faculty can both post information to the wiki, the role of the instructor changes from being the single authority to being a partner with the students in their own learning.
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As David Weinberger writes in his book Everything is Miscellaneous, “When anyone can publish at the press of a button, the social role of gatekeepers changes.” (Weinberger, 2007, p. 102)
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Knowledge no longer exclusively comes from a single instructor; rather, a wiki enables all students to contribute to each other’s learning. “Wiki use reflects the view of an instructor as one who facilitates information sharing among learners rather than simply transmitting knowledge from themselves to their students.” (Mindel & Verma, 2006)
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The term wiki was coined by Ward Cunningham on a visit to Hawaii, where he took the "Wiki Wiki" or "quick" shuttle between terminals at the airport (Cunningham & Leuf, 2001). The term now describes a “freely expandable collection of interlinked Web pages, a hypertext system for storing and modifying information – a database, where each page is easily edited by any user with a forms-capable Web browser client. “ (Cunningham & Leuf, 2001, p. 14)
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The concept of a wiki “is at once both so simple and so novel that it is difficult to grasp.” (Cunningham & Leuf, 2001)
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This versioning capability is also useful to monitor the development of a particular page of web content. In most cases, if two users try to edit the same page at the same time, one will be locked out until the other has completed making updates. Changes to a wiki are published instantly.
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Wiki software tracks revisions so that one may revert back in case of error or malice.
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Both wikis and blogs (short for “web logs”) are collaborative web applications for posting information on the World Wide Web, and have varied use in higher education. (Davi, Frydenberg, & Gulati, 2007).
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While a blog allows its users to comment on each other’s posts, participants cannot change anything that they, themselves, did not post. Blogs are online journals organized chronologically with new posts at the top, while wikis have a much more open structure, which allows participants to add new pages, or change the content of existing pages. (Lamb, 2004) Thus the wiki is “forever evolving.” (Wang & Turner, 2004)
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26 Jul 13
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Traditional course management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, or WebCT provide integrated solutions for faculty to post course content, assignments, and student grades.
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They are often document-centered, allowing instructors to post PowerPoint slides, Word and PDF files, and other course content for students to access. In addition, many course management systems allow students to log in to check grades, submit assignments, or take exams electronically. The responsibility lies with the instructor to create the course content for students to download or access.
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10 Nov 12
Susanne Rasely-PhilippsThis journal article describes the use of a wiki for managing an online course, replacing an LMS.
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a next-generation CMS must be centered around the student’s learning, not the course’s administration
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Barb PerlewitzWikis as a Tool for Collaborative Course Management
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03 Dec 08
Elisabeth (PGelisa) EngumA wiki allows users to create, post, edit, or delete web pages, thus promoting collaboration among its users
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17 Nov 08
paul loweThere are growing expectations among college students to be able to access and manage their course materials over the World Wide Web. In its early days, faculty would create web pages by hand for posting this information. As Internet technologies and access have matured over the past decade, course and learning management systems such as Blackboard and Web CT have become the norm for distributing such materials. In today's Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information. Because of a wiki's collaborative nature, its use also allows students to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation. Using examples from an information technology classroom, this paper describes several ways to structure and use a wiki as a course management tool, and shares results of a student survey on the effectiveness of such an approach on student learning.\n\nKeywords: Wiki, Course Management, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Content Creation, Student Learning.
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14 Nov 08
Clark GawletzThere are growing expectations among college students to be able to access and manage their course materials over the World Wide Web. In its early days, faculty would create web pages by hand for posting this information. As Internet technologies and acc
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wayne andersonWikis as a Tool for Collaborative Course Management
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Debra BeckArticle: "Wikis as a Tool for Collaborative Course Management"
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29 Sep 08
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In today’s Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information. Because of a wiki’s collaborative nature, its use also allows students to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation.
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Traditional course management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle, or WebCT
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are often document-centered
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This paper describes best practices for using a collaborative web application known as a wiki to augment a traditional course management system.
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y introducing a wiki for collaborative course management, students also learn to interact with a real world tool, enabling them to accomplish some tasks that would be more cumbersome if not impossible using a traditional course management system.
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Wikis are useful for students to share their class notes (O’Neill, 2005; Guth, 2007). O’Neill proposes that “the instructor places skeletal lecture notes onto a wiki site, and students flesh them out with materials they have learned in class...”
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Maloney (2007) suggests that today’s course management systems are not being used to their fullest potential. Because they are “built around the … course, not the … student,”
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“The role that the systems play most often is like that of an advanced photocopier
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a next-generation CMS must be centered around the student’s learning, not the course’s administration
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In one project, each group set up its own wiki page to chronicle work and share materials with other group members. A template provides the structure for students to enter their names and tasks completed.
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To promote collaboration, two or three students are assigned specific dates throughout the semester to post their notes from class to the wiki. To ensure that they were posted in a timely fashion, students had to complete their wiki notes prior to the start of the following class. Classmates then reviewed these “Wikipedia-style” notes pages, and added information that they learned but the original authors may have omitted.
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The instructor provided a template containing the class date, space for the contributors to enter their names, and a blank page below for the notes.
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Sirchy Ahere are growing expectations among college students to be able to access and manage their course materials over the World Wide Web. In its early days, faculty would create web pages by hand for posting this information. As Internet technologies and access have matured over the past decade, course and learning management systems such as Blackboard and Web CT have become the norm for distributing such materials. In today’s Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information. Because of a wiki’s collaborative nature, its use also allows students to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation. Using examples from an information technology classroom, this paper describes several ways to structure and use a wiki as a course management tool, and shares results of a student survey on the effectiveness of such an approach on student learning.
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23 Jun 08
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Joan Vinall-CoxExcellent overview of how to use a wiki to contain and extend a course. Matches (and extends) my own experience. "This paper describes techniques and pedagogical considerations when using a wiki to augment a traditional course management system, and presents best practices for their use. Building a course around the use of a wiki invites students to become involved in the process of creating course content and sharing their knowledge with their classmates. The results of this study suggest that many first year college students only have a cursory knowledge of what wikis are, and incorporating their use in the classroom will add value not only to students' studying and learning, but also to their potential success as future knowledge workers and technology professionals."\n\n
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