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"Much has been written about wikis' reliability and use in the classroom. This research bulletin addresses the negative impacts on institutional welfare that can arise from participating in and supporting wikis. The open nature of the platform, which is fundamental to wiki operation and success, enables these negative consequences. A finite user base that can be determined a priori (e.g., a course roster) minimizes the security implications, hence our discussion in this bulletin primarily concerns open or public wikis that accept contributions from a broad and unknown set of Internet users."

"RecentChangesCamp is an Open Space Technology format unconference focused on wikis and collaborative practices. The conference is named after the "Recent changes" feature that is found in most wikis. Recent Changes Camp follows an unconference model of being free to participants and an Open Space model in having a program that is determined on-site by participants. Check out the session ideas people are thinking about for Boston and Canberra."

"Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom."

Some resources on using wikis and Flickr in education.

Hackpad - simplest wiki ever to use and co-author with some 'quick link' features 

Case studies of using CC licenses, including Nina Paley (Sita Sings The Blues) and Cory Doctorow

"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively."

wiki on voicethread

Wiki from UK uni with guidance for users on Moodle features. There may be some ideas there that we can reuse at some point.

This page compares e-book reader devices that use e-paper. If you prefer Devices that use an LCD (TFT) display See: LCD E-Book Reader Matrix. For a general introduction to all e-book devices see: E-book devices. See also Web Tablets, PDA devices and Smartphones that may be used as e-book readers.

Why an LMS wiki is a misnomer - or rubbish by another name

Case studies of gamification in the workplace. I like the RAMP solution as well as the progress that DeLoitte could see on individuals.

Doug Belshaw has collected together many definitions of digital literacy in this wiki page

Collaborative wiki for community discussion, development and sharing of open educational resources for elearning. Note the featuring of Otago Polytechnic (Leigh Blackall).

Minocha search on OU research repository. Has written a lot on effectiveness etc of blogs, wikis and social software for learning.

Wiki supporting development of 21C and digital literacy skills.