Advantages of using Wiki as educational tool:

·        There has been a history of use of Wikis within educational bodies as more of a management Web 2.0 tool rather than an educational tool. Within tertiary education wikis have been used for international collaboration on research, a tool for grant development and for the sharing of information across regional boundaries. However, the use of the wiki as a classroom tool is a lot more recent.

·        While the use of Wikis has proven to be an asset in the business sphere, as it allows for universal access to materials not bound by geography and allows for a knowledge bank to be built, especially in IT.

·        The implementation of the Wiki as a classroom tool is still in early days but there are a number of advantages and strengths that are offered.

·        For schools that have multiple campuses that are geographically isolated, it allows for increased collaboration between the different cohorts of students.

·        It allows for community building within a large student cohort, as well as encouraging student discourse and material development that results in the production of student generated digital artefacts.

·        Use of wikis allows for the development of digital literacy in students. In the modern day computer and device centric world, it is likely that students will be required to use a similar piece of technology in their working lives or may simply find that their knowledge of how to use a wiki will be a valuable tool in their further studies or whatever line of work they chose to proceed in.

·        The nature of the wiki makes it ideal as a tool for student group projects. It does not require students to meet face to face and provides them with a completely malleable digital workspace that they can modify to suit their needs. The inherent change tracking of the wiki also allows for the teacher to directly observe which students have had input to which sections of the project and the fact that it is basically just a website allows for ease of submission as, rather than have to go through a submission process, the URL is all that the teacher or group members need to be able to access the project.

·        Also because Wikis are, at their core, editable web pages, they are easily able to be integrated with other online resources. It allows for a merging of online media materials, social networking and also allows for sorting and curation of resources on an individual or group level.

There are myriad uses for a Wiki in an educational context.

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