Wikis: collaborative virtual learning environments Augar, Naomi, Raitman, Ruth and Zhou, Wanlei 2006, Wikis: collaborative virtual learning environments. In Weiss, Joel, Nolan, Jason, Hunsinger, Jeremy and Trifonas, Peter (ed), International handbook of virtual learning environments, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp.1251-1269, doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-3803-7_52. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Wikis: collaborative virtual learning environments Author(s) Augar, Naomi Raitman, Ruth Zhou, Wanlei Title of book International handbook of virtual learning environments Editor(s) Weiss, Joel Nolan, Jason Hunsinger, Jeremy Trifonas, Peter Publication date 2006 Series The Kluwer international handbooks of education ; v. 14 Chapter number 52 Total chapters 63 Start page 1251 End page 1269 Total pages 19 Publisher Springer Place of Publication Dordrecht, The Netherlands Summary Ward Cunningham used the word wiki (the Hawaiian word meaning quick) to name the collaborative tool he developed for use on the internet in 1994. Wikis are fully editable websites. Users can visit, read, re-organize and update the structure and content (text and pictures) of a wiki as they see fit. This functionality is called open editing (Leuf & Cunningham, 2001). All a user needs to edit and read a wiki, is a web browser. Consequently, the wiki has great potential for use as a collaborative virtual learning environment. Wikis abound on the internet. A well known wiki is Wikipedia an online collaborative encyclopaedia, where anybody can read, edit, re-organize and update the encyclopaedia content (Wikipedia, 2004). ISBN 140203802X 9781402038020 Language eng DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-3803-7_52 Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter Copyright notice ©2006, Springer Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30000934 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Information Technology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 30 Oct 2008, 09:06:09 EST Mon, 27 Apr 2009, 12:34:58 EST Mon, 29 Jun 2009, 10:28:39 EST Thu, 01 Apr 2010, 08:26:55 EST Thu, 01 Apr 2010, 08:28:36 EST Tue, 03 Jun 2014, 15:45:57 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:18:03 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 08:05:29 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1179 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 03 Jul 2008, 11:15:23 EST