Educational wikis
From Wikiversity
Wikiversity can keep track of education-oriented wikis, establish constructive interactions with them, and research their technology, activity, culture, processes, and impact. It can also provide an introduction to the use of wikis in education.
[edit] Activities
- Educational Wikis/constructive interactions - this is a page for discussion about how to foster constructive interactions between education-oriented wikis and other projects involved in the development of learning resources.
[edit] Experimental Learning Processes
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[edit] WikiEducator
WikiEducator - is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. WikiEducator has a strong focus on a learning for development agenda. Content is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
[edit] Wikihowto
[edit] Wikihow
- Wikihow - Another wiki with how-to information, licenced under a creative commons By-NC-SA license.
[edit] One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child wiki - research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. See also: One Laptop Per Teacher.
[edit] CouchSurfing
CouchSurfing University - social networking wiki that is trying to make use of Wikiversity resources.
[edit] Ask Dr Wiki
Ask Dr Wiki - A medical wiki with the goal of creating a collective online memory for physicians, fellows, residents, and medical students.
[edit] Curriki
Curriki was started by Scott McNealy the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. It is a non-profit organisation with the goal of building a complete course of instruction and assessment for K-12.
[edit] Edutechwiki
- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Main_Page - based in Switzerland; explains a lot of the technical stuff behind web education.
[edit] FLOSSCom Project & Ubuntu Education
- FLOSSCom.NET Wiki - exploring free/open source software communities as learning communities
- Learning the Open Source Way - a project aimed at developing a toolkit on "Learning the Open Source Way"
[edit] Wikikids
- Wikikids -"Wikikids is a project to create a free, colorful, reliable, and up-to-date encyclopedia for children in the United States and around the world". (Currently displays MediaWiki configuration screen -- may be defunct. Countrymike 06:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC))
[edit] Second Life Education Wiki
Second Life Education Wiki -"Second Life provides a unique and flexible environment for educators interested in distance learning"
[edit] Debatepedia
- Debatepedia - International Debate Education Association
[edit] OER Grapevine
- OER Grapevine - mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources
[edit] ELATEwiki
- [1] - E-Learning and Teaching Exchange wiki supports e-learning endeavors at the higher education level.
[edit] Research
Wikiversity can research the technology, activity, culture, processes, and impact of educational wikis.
[edit] Conceptual comparisons
[edit] Statistical comparisons
[edit] Wikiversity and WikiEducator
| Date | Wiki | Alexa ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2008 | WikiEducator | 230, 487 |
| 24 June 2008 | Wikiversity | 25,677 |
[edit] Subpages
| Educational wikis/Constructive interactions | Educational wikis/Constructive interactions/Colloquium thread |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis
- VotApedia - an audience-response system that uses mobile phones to poll responses to questions and collate them on a MediaWiki installation
- WikiScience - for researching wiki projects, particularly Wikimedia Foundation projects
- Best educational wiki (Edublogs, 2008)

