Educational wikis

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This resource offers an introduction to the use of wikis in education. Wikiversity keeps track of education-oriented wikis, establishes constructive interactions with them, and researches their technology, activity, culture, processes, and impact. Constructive interactions is a sub-page for exploring interactions between education-oriented wikis and other projects involved in the development of learning resources.

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[edit] Experimental Learning Processes

Join or create a debate and/or summarize its salient features at http://wikireason.net/wiki/Forum_Entrance. Please note this is an external site with its own community, social norms, and legal requirements. Please be prudent and wise in paraphrasing, citing, and archival of results locally. Content license requirements may conflict occasionally. Alternatively, methods learned there may be useful within the context of some local learning process or free materials development.

[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. WikiEducator has similar goals and methods to Wikiversity.

[edit] Wikihowto

  • Wikihowto - comprehensive, free, and open Howtos hosted by Wikia. Content licenced under GNU FDL.

[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. The Educators' page describes OLPC learning projects. 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

[edit] FLOSSCom Project & Ubuntu Education

[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

Table with figures from Wikiversity and Wikieducator (2008-05-18)
Figures from Wikiversity and Wikieducator (2008-05-18)
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

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