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The word "wiki" comes from Hawaiian language, meaning "quick" or "fast." A wiki is a web site that lets any visitor become a participant: you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. A wiki is continuously “under revision.” It is a living collaboration whose purpose is the sharing of the creative process and product by many.

In a traditional classroom, the instructor provides most of the content and students absorb and interpret that content. With wikis, you can give students the opportunity to provide much of the course content. Collaborative authoring allows students to learn from one another – both in terms of viewing each other’s content but also by seeing the quality of other students’ work. In a traditional classroom, a student writes a paper, the teacher grades it, and then returns it to the student. Other students rarely have the opportunity to see and therefore learn from the information in that paper. Seeing other students’ work on a continuous basis can cause a student to evaluate his or her own work and see how it compares in quality. The comparison may cause the student to raise his or her work to a higher level. Students can develop critical thinking skills by critiquing other students’ information and learning how to defend their views when critiqued by other students. Students learn to work collaboratively using wikis which can encourage students to build mutually beneficial scholarly relationships. With wikis, you can give students the opportunity to provide much of the course content. Teachers using wikis are finding that when wikis are well done, the wiki can serve as content for subsequent versions of the class. In this way, students benefit from a sense of pride that their work continues and provides value for future students. Teachers benefit by offloading some of the work of content creation, so that they can do more value-added instructional work. Wikis are increasingly being used in the corporate world, where managers see the value of collaborative authoring. Wikis used in corporations can produce valuable information quickly, utilizing the expertise of individual company employees. As the younger generation moves up the managerial ranks, it is likely that such old-fashioned managerial standbys will be replaced by more active experiences.”
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