Strategies to Support Personal Knowledge Management Using a Wiki Site in Online Courses

Using Chat, Whiteboard and Wiki to support knowledge building

The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) knowledge building environment has been used in Singapore and in the United States. It includes support for synchronous, quasi-synchronous and asynchronous online interaction using text chat, whiteboard drawing and wiki summarization. It has been used for groups of students to collaborate on challenge problems in mathematics, on sequences of math curriculum and on w...

Overcoming Organisational Resistance to Using Wiki Technology for Knowledge Management

Although Wikis emerged in the public domain more than a decade ago, a number of business organisations are now discovering the advantages of using Wiki technology to manage knowledge. However, there are many who are not convinced about the merits of this relatively new Wiki technology and are not yet prepared to risk its adoption because it exhibits many ideas that have yet to be tested and man...

Using a Wiki to Support Sustainability Literacy

It is becoming increasingly important that students develop an awareness and understanding of sustainability issues: that they develop their ‘sustainability literacy’. For the past few years we have included some explicit coverage of this for computing students. Computing students tend to be very strategically-orientated and reject material which seems to them to be of no direct relevance to th...

Contextualized Knowledge Acquisition in a Personal Semantic Wiki

The use of semantic representations in document-oriented environments – as formal annotations or embedded instances of a formal knowledge base – is seen as an enabling technology for intelligent services which may help knowledge workers in tasks like finding, structuring, or assessing information. Also, a high level of formalization has potential to directly support problem solving, e.g., by th...

Wiki-I: A Semantic Wiki to Support the Ideas Development and Knowledge Sharing in Innovation Activities