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

by Michele Notari, Rebecca Reynolds, Samuel Kai Wah Chu

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 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.

200 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2016

Reviews

[Lyra]

I’m not in eduction so I’m not the target audience, hence no rating. I wanted to find a book on Wikis and this is what my library system had. That said, I have a much better understanding of how wikis work and also what my kids are doing in their classrooms. The kids may call it a group google, but it’s a wiki. As a parent, I’m encouraged by thoughtfulness going into this teaching tool.