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Just wanted to say what a pleasure it is to see your work (your in the Big sense) with wikis. I have been a wiki fan in since 2004, using them in my undergrad and graduate courses (all in french though so not sure you woul dbe interested). We do conceptual development work over time (user created content) which provides the course material for the following students. Some people in ireland call this "communal construtivism". Here is a glimpse if you want to know more (from an artilce I wrote in 2005-kinda dated now but THIS is not :-)
Wikis enact knowledge building with and for others. The focus is on the community itself rather than on the individual learner (Holmes, Tangney, FitzGibbon, Savage, & Mehan, 2004). The implications of communal constructivism for the university context are of particular import. In the words of Holmes et al (2001), "What we argue for is a Communal constructivism where students and teachers are not simply engaged in developing their own information butactively involved in creating knowledge that will benefit other students. In this model students will not simply pass through a course like water through a sieve but instead leave their own imprint in the development of the course, their school or university, and ideally the discipline." (Fountain, 2005) http://www.profetic.org/dossiers/spip.php?rubrique110
So, I just wanted to share this kind of web 2.0 higher ed philosophy.
All the best!
Renée
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