Technical Evaluation Report 27: Educational Wikis: Features and selection criteria

This report discusses the educational uses of the ‘wiki,’ an increasingly popular approach to online community development. Wikis are defined and compared with ‘blogging’ methods; characteristics of major wiki engines are described; and wiki features and selection criteria are examined.

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Main Authors: Jim Rudolph, Mary Cossarin, Sharon Clark, Linda Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2004-04-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
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Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/163/244
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International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
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title_fullStr Technical Evaluation Report 27: Educational Wikis: Features and selection criteria
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wiki engines
evaluation
distance education
higher education
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