International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (Apr 2004)

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

  • Jim Rudolph,
  • Mary Cossarin,
  • Sharon Clark,
  • Linda Schwartz

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1

Abstract

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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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