Wikis in Higher Ed - Ideas

Welcome to the Wikis in Higher Ed wiki. Please share your ideas, comments, suggestions about how to use wikis in higher education.

Faculty Use

• 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 throught 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.)
• Course Wiki: Create a Wiki for each course you teach (e.g., Math101.wiki) that would contain course outline, syllabus, notes, resources, links. As the weeks pass, both student and teacher can edit the wiki, building what becomes an excellent study tool and all-on-one resource for the course itself. Gets students involved (i.e., engaging the digital generation), and gets faculty acquainted with Web 2.0 software.
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Student Use

• 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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