Documentation:ETUG Wiki Demo
"Sometimes when you collaborate, you have to trust people more than you have any reason to do so. It works because most people are good"
- Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki
Why Wiki?
- Groups of people who want to collaborate also tend to trust one another
- Trust reduces administrative overhead, fosters collaboration, and empowers students
- Breaks down artificial barriers across the University
- Supports Students as Knowledge Creators and Open Pedagogy
- Really Easy to Use; Almost impossible to break
- Content is easily sharable
Student as Producer and Open Pedagogy models
We are often asking students to do work just to show us that they can do it. I wanted them to do something that had genuine value, and not just this makeup exercise they perform just to show [professors] they know how to do things.
-Dr. Rosie Redfield, UBC Zoology
- A focus of open pedagogy is equitable participation in the creation of knowledge. In this way, open pedagogy often transforms the student experience within the classroom. It can help students begin to see themselves as scholars and it de-centres the instructor from the information expert to a facilitation role that supports student negotiation of ideas and transforms the efforts of their learning into open knowledge resources.
- By engaging students in knowledge production and sharing, the Student as Producer model helps transform students from being the object of the educational process to being the subject of it. Additionally, in the student as producer model, the university’s approach to learning and research are closer aligned; for example, students, similar to researchers, are asked to share their work with authentic audiences and not just with their immediate instructor or adviser.
Examples
In the end, an essay or an exam is an instance of busywork: usually written in haste; for one particular reader, the professor; and thereafter discarded.
-Jon Beasley-Murray, UBC FHIS
- Multilingual Forestry Dictionary - https://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:MFD
- Course Projects:
- Torts Law Wiki: Torts Wiki
- ESA: Ethnography_of_South_Asia
- Relational Lexicography Knowledgebase
- Open Case Studies Site: https://cases.open.ubc.ca/
- Math Exam Resource Wiki: Math_Exam_Resources
About the UBC Wiki
- Launched in 2008
- ~114,000 pages, 800,000 edits, 45K users
- Open! Accessible!
- Built on MediaWiki
- Supports Mapping, H5P, YouTube, other functionality
- Embed-able
Learn More
Contact Us
- Will Engle - will.engle [at] ubc.ca
- Rie Namba - rie.namba [at] ubc.ca
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