The use of the Wikis in both post-graduate and undergraduate teaching is rapidly increasing in popularity. Much of the research into the use of this technology has focused on the practical aspects of how the technology can be used and is yet to address why it is used, or in what way it enhances teaching and learning outcomes. A comparison of the key characteristics of the constructivist learnin...

This paper explores three potential affordances (social, technical and pedagogical) of wikis in the context of designing 32 teachers’ learning of classroom management cases. Two learning environments were designed and two groups of the teacher-participants posted their own written and audio cases, identified problems, discussed and proposed solutions with the input of their peers, in the respec...

From a humble information system wikis have evolved in both business organizations and educational institutions, catering to, among other uses, training and education. The current work focuses on wikibased learning and aims to address a visible gap in research. Much previous work is but prescriptive guidelines and self-reflections. While attempts exist involving some assessments of wiki-related...

Huge repositories of pedagogical resources such as the French initiative of digital thematic libraries are now accessible by both students and professors. This high quantity of data makes their access difficult to the students, as they cannot get easily pertinent pedagogical resources that fit their needs. One way to make this access easier is to add annotations to these resources and to exploi...

Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain knowledge in a coherent and transparent fashion. Here, we examine the potential of wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing. In the hope to stimu...

What is a Wiki? Tutorial 1 for new WikiEducators 2 All content sourced from WikiEducator.org and is licensed under CC-BY-SA or CC-BY where specified. Objectives In this tutorial we will: • provide an overview of what wikis are, • and show some examples of their different uses. • discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using wikis to develop content • describe the main features of WikiEducat...

DSMW is an extension to Semantic Mediawiki (SMW), it allows to create a network of SMW servers that share common semantic wiki pages. DSMW users can create communication channels between servers and use a publish-subscribe approach to manage the change propagation. DSMW synchronizes concurrent updates of shared semantic pages to ensure their consistency. It offers new collaboration modes to sem...

On the Web 2.0, there are numerous projects for collaboratively creating and using scientific knowledge in a wiki—think of the scientific sections of Wikipedia or domain-specific platforms like PlanetMath. They do, however, not yet offer semantic services that could promote collaboration both of scientific knowledge engineers and of scholars or that take semantics emerged from such communities ...

Keywords: In this document, we delineate the state of the art in fields related to the myOntology project including wikis, semantic wikis, ontology formalisms, ontology change management, triple stores, ontology visualization, user interface techniques, and achieving community consensus. The main challenge for the use of ontologies in fast changing areas such as e-commerce is to provide compreh...

Yun-Ke Changa,∗, Miguel Angel Morales-Arroyob, Hla Thanc, Zarchi Tunc and Zhujun Wangc aWee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Jalan Bahar, Singapore bInstituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico cSchool of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological Univ...