Using Wikis for Online Collaboration

by James A. West

Book Overview

How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2.0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism. It provides both the pedagogical background and practical guidelines, tools, and processes for accomplishing these goals with special emphasis on wikis and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470343338
• ISBN13: 9780470343333
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.0"