Wiki-tivities

by Dr Alejandro Armellini, Dr Sylvia Jones, Ms Helen Whitehead, Prof Gilly Salmon

This workshop is aimed at Higher Education practitioners with an interest in exploring practical applications of wiki environments in Higher Education teaching and learning.

Wikis -collaborative, universally editable websites- have received significant attention in recent years. There are several ongoing studies into their affordances in terms of educational gain. This workshop looks into the design and application of wiki-based online activities (or wiki-tivities) in higher education. Wiki-tivities go beyond the use of wikis for the collaborative production of text. Research conducted as part of the Adelie Project (www.le.ac.uk/adelie) suggests that the use of wikis as part of a set of online activities can serve a variety pedagogical purposes.

Wiki-tivities can be varied, attractive, cheap and effective in a range of HE contexts and disciplines. They are easy to integrate into existing systems such as VLEs and can play a central role in the process of embedding e-learning.

By the end of this workshop, participants will have:

- Explored wiki-tivities and their uses in online and blended learning settings;
- Discussed and critiqued lessons learned on wiki-tivities design and implementation;
- Shared experiences of wiki-tivities in their own teaching practice;
- Designed, rationalised and shared a wiki-tivity appropriate to their contexts.

Participants are expected to play an active role throughout this workshop. They will be given activities to undertake, both individually and in groups, including the design of a wiki-tivity. They will also have the opportunity to engage in a meaningful debate on the pedagogical efficacy of the designed wiki-tivities and their integration into other types of online work.

ID Number: 1155

Date: Wednesday, 5th September 2007

Time: 1600

Location: East Midlands Conference Centre, Suite 1

Theme: Designing learning spaces

Presentation: Wikitivities.ppt (The file which you can access from this link is the responsibility of the author of the Abstract to which the file relates, not ALT.