This workshop focuses on two interrelated themes; knowledge advancement and design. The knowledge advancement theme explores the educational use of wikis in different institutional settings and the challenges that arise as the open architecture and shared authorship features of wiki software meet practices grounded in concepts of individual learning. This links to the design theme, in which the...

Wikis are interactive Web 2.0 tools that enable collaboration and knowledge sharing. Wiki-enabled collaboration is ideal in an educational setting, yet is prone to free-riding. This study examined the impact of the relational social capital of undergraduate students on their wiki usage and free-riding in a group project. Preliminary findings reveal that characteristics of relational social capi...

Wikis are promoted as collaborative writing tools that allow students to transform a text into a collective document by information sharing and group reflection. However, despite the promising collaborative capabilities of wikis, their pedagogical value regarding collaborative writing is still questionable. Wiki alone cannot make collaborative writing happen, and students do not automatically b...

s of oral presentations and posters Gene Wiki: Crowdsourcing Knowledge Extraction From the Biomedical Literature Salvatore Loguercio (1), Benjamin M. Good (2), Andrew I. Su (2) (1) Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (2) Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California (US) The goal of the Gene Wiki project is to create a continuously-updated, collaboratively-written, ...

Wikis serve to support collaborative writing on the web. The best known example of a wiki is Wikipedia, an open encyclopedia on the web. This paper is meant to explore possible uses of a wiki-environment in legal education. Firstly, it describes the actual use of a closed wiki environment in a class on Cybercrime in the Netherlands. Secondly, the paper explores the possibilities for internation...

While an ever increasing popularity of online wiki platforms, usertagging tools, blogs, and forums is the core characteristic of the Web 2.0 era, converting an existing high-quality training module into a collaborative online space for an active community of practice (CoP) while preserving its quality approval processes is a challenging task. This is the aim of the ECDC-funded Field Epidemiolog...

Enabling a Semantic Wiki to Drive Business Interactions Sven Graupner, Sharad Singhal, Sujoy Basu, Hamid Motahari HP Laboratories HPL-2009-193 business interactions, business process, best practice framework, outsourcing, cloud, services, knowledge repository This paper describes a Semantic Wiki which enables business interactions among people who are collaborating in the context of business ac...

There is a growing interest in holistic ontology engineering approaches that involve multidisciplinary teams consisting of ontology engineers and domain experts. For the latter, who often lack ontology engineering expertise, tools such as Web forms, spreadsheet like templates or semantic wikis have been developed that hide or decrease the complexity of logical axiomatisation in expressive ontol...