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Please feel free to edit this page and share your thoughts and ideas about using wikis in higher education. Or, you can go to the Best Practices page and enter a best practice tip!
Faculty Use
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Faculty write lots of grants and usually have to collaborate with others. Wikis make it easy to collaborate and minimize amount of time spent trying to negotiate f2f meeting times. Simply create a private wiki, start pages for each section of grant and get busy writing. With the discussion feature and the revision history feature, it's easy to see who added what and to continue working asynchronously throughout the entire process. (Although I would recommend an initial f2f meeting for brainstorming the grant, showing folks how to use the wiki, deciding on how to organize the wiki site, etc.)
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No-Travel Conferences
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department wide knowledge base
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Public Relations Showcase
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Student Use
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A group writing project as an assignment can be quite daunting. Students find it as difficult to find meeting times as faculty do and they really need some way to be able to work together easily. Normally, group projects would be a series of revised word documents and lots and lots of email back and forth to see who has latest revision, who wrote what, etc. Or, it would mean learning how to use track changes feature. With a wiki, you can easily do everything all in one place.
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coordinating student organizations
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Comments are always welcome!
2007-07-03 18:30:51 Your comments will have your name attached! —Bethany
