Title :
Wikis for Education - Helping Students Communicate and Collaborate
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math & Comput. Sci., Muhlenberg Coll., Allentown, PA, USA
Abstract :
In educational and professional environments, effective communication (e.g. reading, writing, speaking, and teaming) is important and can be developed with a variety of activities and assignments. This paper summarizes ways that wikis can facilitate these practices and help educators to achieve their goals, and provides examples of successful wiki activities.
Keywords :
Web sites; computer aided instruction; groupware; professional aspects; educational environment; effective communication; professional environment; wikis; Education; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; History; Internet; Writing; close reading; collaboration; communication; peer review; project management; reading; task tracking; wiki; writing;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1521-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4534-9
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2011.56
