Wikis in Higher Education

1. What? A wiki is a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (an original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia (from Wikipedia)
   
   
2. Why use wikis? Because many heads are better than one; because collaborative writing is more exciting and rewarding; because you can encourage participation by group members; because you can have a historical record and electronic paper trail of the work you’ve done; and because you can easily share your results.
   
   
3. Who uses wikis? Students for group projects, committees on campus, campus communications, lecture notes or presentations, or anything else that you want to put on a Web page.

1. You know about Wikipedia, but what about the rest of Wikiversity?
   
   
2. Ideas for using Wikis in Education
   
   
3. Free e-Learning content at WikiEducator
   
   
4. K-12: Web Tools 4 You 2 Use (wiki)
   
   
5. Will Richardson has a wiki about wikis!!
   
   
6. WikiBooks free textbooks and manuals
   
   
7. Wet Paint has a useful site about Wikis in Education - Wikis in Higher Ed
   
   
8. Wikisource the free library
   
   
9. 9th graders have a wiki about mashups. They know what a mashup is, do you?
   
   
10. David Warlick is an excellent edublogger. He uses a wiki for his presentation materials and handouts.
    
    
11. I love the debate sites: Debatepedia for one example which uses a wiki engine.
    
    
12. Wikibook on Web 2.0 & Emerging Technologies
    
    
13. A wiki about using Second Life in Education
    
    
14. Branded wikis at University of Minnesota.
    
    
15. Use for reporting progress on a grant project. (Thomas Jefferson High school)
    
    
16. A faculty member speaks: 10 Best Practices for using wikis in education
    
    
17. There's a FaceBook group for Using Wiki in Education
    
    
18. Where do you get wikis? Go to the Wiki Vendors page.