Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Digital technologies have not only penetrated our life, but have substantially transformed learning patterns.e-Learning 2.0 is learning through digital connections and peer collaboration.Wiki is a web technology used for collaborative publishing on the web.The 'WikiWiki concept' was invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995 with a project called the Portland Pattern Repository.It is a type of server software that allows working with data on a remote server on the Web.Users interact with the software through a web interface that lets them read, edit and publish content.Wikis should not be confused with Wikipedia as this online encyclopedia is only one, although the brightest, example how this technology can be used for collaborative work.The most popular Wiki Software: Wikispaces (free and low-cost wiki software); Mediawiki (free software engine used for Wikipedia); TikiWiki (open source and free wiki software) etc.Several authors who have access to the website via the Internet and proper authorization can freely add and change the content of the wiki website: rewrite texts, add new texts and images, add and link pages etc.The wiki owner can restrict editing to a group of people, publish to a wiki individually or open it for global editing by everyone on the web.R. Lavin defined wikis as websites that are collaboratively editable; incrementally updateable; and radically hypertextual.'The radical hypertextuality of wikis, combined with their collaborative nature, allows for constant restructuring of information as a social process, in a way that no other major tool appears to allow'.He calls wikis 'the ultimate social constructivist tool, as, in ideal cases, users strive together for a summary of their aggregated ideas or pool their knowledge to create a constantly evolving knowledge base' [3].The educational potential of wikis has been studied by different scholars.S. Reinhold thinks that 'as a collaborative platform, wiki systems enable writing, editing and discussing online educational content, creating online glossaries and repositories of supplemental educational material, etc' [4]. A. Bruns considers that wiki technology can replace the traditional linear approach of presenting the course content with, for certain fields of knowledge, a more appropriate networked approach [1].G. Bubas suggests that Wiki can be used for the development of Internet-based communication literacy, the collective creation of course content and peer-to-peer learning, and can contribute to students' learning experience [2].Due to their flexibility and relative ease of use nowadays wikis have a wide range of educational applications.Primary uses include collaborative writing, project management, and multiparty running commentaries.Collaborative writing in wikis may have two main forms: -sequential writing that requires students to write a story sequentially, one by one, each contributing a fixed amount of written content according to the
Author: Mykytiuk, S.S.
Institution: Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7016153231