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Using wikis in educational settings and learning communities

Welcome to the RECAP Educational Wiki

Now that the Internet has "come of age", the Wiki is just one brilliant example interactive and collaborative tasks can be used effectively in educational settings via a web browser (a feature of Web 2.0). Using such technologies, groups of learners and educators can extend the range and scope of their learning experiences and activities via an educational wiki.

Given the increasing emphasis on personalised learning, the Wiki can play a useful role in creating a flexible and dynamic educational resource as well as an efficient tool for effective leadership and management.

This Wiki is designed and maintained to illustrate the potential educational benefits of using wikis with children, young people and educational professionals. Want to know more about the key concepts behind a Wiki? Take a look at our introductory "Guide". For more specific information, check out the WikiWikiWeb.

We are continuing the process of compiling a range of scenarios to show how an educational Wiki can be used as a natural and dynamic application within any school community or educational setting, whether small or large. These illustrate how an educational Wiki can foster a collaborative approach, dynamically support a range of educational activities, promote active learning communities and encourage effective and efficient leadership and management functions to support school improvement. The first three scenarios are now available for you to browse online and include:

Many of the software packages that create a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) incorporate a wiki as one of the teaching and learning options. Skillfully used, the Wiki component of a VLE can provide course participants with the opportunity to collaborate and produce a shared document as well as access to other Web 2.0 technologies.

Our Wiki communities

This active educational Wiki serves different communities. Some pages of our educational Wiki are "open" and can be seen by anyone. However, some pages and projects are "closed" as they form part of specific developmental activity. Unless you have been invited to participate and provided with an author password, you will not be able to read or edit Wiki pages in some of these Wiki groups.

For more information

Please contact us for more information about joining one of our Wiki groups or how you can apply a "Wiki" to effectively support the leadership and management of schools, continuous professional development and creating learning communities with a local, regional, national or global reach.

This educational Wiki is powered by pmwiki-2.1.5 - a web-based implementation that utilises PHP on the host web server. Further information about PmWiki can be found at http://pmwiki.org/.