Understanding learning: the Wiki way

Learning “the wiki way”, learning through wikis is a form of selfregulated learning that is independent of formal learning settings and takes place in a community of knowledge. Such a community may work jointly on a digital artifact to create new, innovative and emergent knowledge. We regard wikis as a prototype of tools for community-based learning, and point out five relevant features. We will present the co-evolution model, as introduced by Cress and Kimmerle [3][4], that may be understood as a framework to describe learning in the wiki way. This model describes collaborative knowledge building as a co-evolution between cognitive and social systems. To investigate learning the wiki way, we have to consider both individual processes and processes within the wiki, which represent the processes that are going on within a community. This paper presents three empirical studies that investigate learning the wiki way in a laboratory setting. We take a look at participants’ contribut...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Joachim Kimmerle, Johannes Moskaliuk, Ulrike Cress
• Keywords: Formal Learning Settings, The Wiki Way, Wiki Way, WIKIS 2009