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The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student-generated content for collaborative learning
Article first published online: 28 FEB 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00799.x
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Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P. and Wheeler, D. (2008), The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student-generated content for collaborative learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 39: 987–995. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00799.x
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Abstract
This paper explores the potential for wiki-type open architecture software to promote and support collaborative learning through the use of student-created content. It delineates some of the affordances and constraints of wiki software as an open architecture that has the potential to facilitate collaborative learning through community-focused enquiry. It seeks to promote debate in this key area of development, and highlights some recent key contributions to the developing discourse on social software in what has been termed ‘the architecture of participation’.