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Thursday, 17 March 2011

Reflection: The purpose of a wiki – Support Learning?


Once the idea and purpose of a wiki is understood and the process of its use is mastered, the utilisation of a wiki to support learning is an excellent tool to promote collaborative content creation and editing in an online environment. The collaborative features (constructivism) of wikis make them particularly well suited for cooperative learning environments. It has been suggested that cooperative teams achieve higher levels of thought and retain information longer than students who do their work individually.

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