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Friday, May 23, 2008
Online Learning: Wikis Get Users Talking at MIT, Johns Hopkins - Linda L Briggs, Campus Technology
In many ways, college campuses are an obvious implementation for a wiki tool. The decentralized nature of the technology and its ability to allow a wide range of individuals or groups to contribute ideas into a single area through Web browsers make wikis simple and compelling for higher education uses. As a Web 2.0 technology--so-called because users can pitch in to collaborate on content--wikis may be a great tool for higher ed, but who is using them successfully, and how? To find out, we spoke with technologists at two schools--MIT and Johns Hopkins University--who have years of wiki experience. Both use a wiki product called Confluence, from Atlassian, a global software company based in Australia. One interesting note about both schools: Despite original intents, administrative uses of the wiki tool outweigh academic uses.
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