The Wiki Way of
Learning: Creating Learning Experiences Using Collaborative Web Pages by Michele Notari, Rebecca Reynolds,
Samuel Kai Wah Chu, and Beat Döbeli Honegger. American Library Association,
2016.
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.
For more
information on this title, see the publisher’s web page.
