Faculty and design/technology professionals discuss the implications of using a wiki for collaborative student projects in higher education.

2. Teresa Smith, Nursing Program Faculty

3. Craig Lamb, Director of Academic support

5. Who knows what a WIKI really is?

6. What is a WIKI?

7. Educational Implications of a WIKI? Wiki-mediated learning environments facilitate social constructivist design models. The students are brought into close proximity with one another, the content, and the instructor so that collaborative learning activities that support improved learning outcomes are possible.

8. Students buy-in. Students quality of work improves Great for colleagues to collaborate. The technology exists Craig Lamb Jianhao Chen Tre Smith Josh Gaul Wiki Discussion Panel

10. Edit that post after the fact.

11. Go back and revert to the first version of the post.

12. Edit another person's post. (Can they see who made which edits?)

13. Export a post as another format (PDF, doc, html - which ones work?).

14. Print a post - how's it look?

15. Use the search function to find a post you have created.

16. Add a member to the wiki giving them the lowest possible level of access.

17. Comment on someone else's post.

18. Change the theme of the wiki.

19. Make the wiki private.

20. Make one page of the wiki private. (?)

22. Teresa Smith – Student collaborative work http://www.wikispaces.com

23. Jianhao Chen – Student feedback on using a WIKI

24. Craig Lamb – Professional Collaboration on a WIKI

25. Joshua Gaul – Future of wiki-mediated tools at Empire State College Based on the results of our project, Wikispaces has made us lean in its direction, however we have determined that a good solution for us would be to build this in-house. This is for a few reasons: ---Login is easier to handle if its within an already owned software (Open Atrium) ---We aren't sure of the immediate buy-in, so spending $6000 a year on an enterprise software doesn't make sense to start. If we get lots of interest, we'll re- consider at that time. ---A little more control over use may ease the minds of end-users; we will offer this as an alternative option. If people would like to still use their existing wikis in Wikispaces, PBWiki, etc., they are welcome to. Wikispaces will be the best solution when we have a high volume of buy-in. For now, we can "duplicate" its capabilities in house, based on what you have told us are priorities in a tool like this. We are hoping to be setup for testing for the summer term or, at the latest, the fall term. Wiki Taskforce, ESC 2011

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