Maupertus
May 28th, 2010, 10:18 PM
Hey everyone,
I wanted to pick some brains about the following.
I'm teaching European Law at my faculty here in the Netherlands.
We are currently using a Wiki system that is embedded into our electronic learning environment (Blackboard). The idea is that students work on articles/entries on European law, creating their own compendium.
Its a great idea, but it has a couple of significant flaws.
1. The wiki-system is badly implemented. Its tacked on, but not integrated, making it an unruly thing to moderate, or indeed, edit an entry on. It's unstable and awfull
2. Version control is virtually non-existent. Hence I can only see who edited something, when. But not see what someone changed.
3. It isn't usable as a wiki in the sense that students only see a very long list of (sometimes botched) entries there is no real article structure that is as easy to search as other wiki's
4. We can't export the thing onto the net, it can only remain in this closed environment.
So I was thinking that it should be able to run a wiki outside the Blackboard(R) environment, for instance with Wikia, but I have little experience with this kind of thing.
What are your thoughts? I only have the requirements above and the fact that I want it to be in a closed environment until we have checked the content for errors, and only 'members' (ie. students) that can edit it.
Thanks for your 2 cents!
I wanted to pick some brains about the following.
I'm teaching European Law at my faculty here in the Netherlands.
We are currently using a Wiki system that is embedded into our electronic learning environment (Blackboard). The idea is that students work on articles/entries on European law, creating their own compendium.
Its a great idea, but it has a couple of significant flaws.
1. The wiki-system is badly implemented. Its tacked on, but not integrated, making it an unruly thing to moderate, or indeed, edit an entry on. It's unstable and awfull
2. Version control is virtually non-existent. Hence I can only see who edited something, when. But not see what someone changed.
3. It isn't usable as a wiki in the sense that students only see a very long list of (sometimes botched) entries there is no real article structure that is as easy to search as other wiki's
4. We can't export the thing onto the net, it can only remain in this closed environment.
So I was thinking that it should be able to run a wiki outside the Blackboard(R) environment, for instance with Wikia, but I have little experience with this kind of thing.
What are your thoughts? I only have the requirements above and the fact that I want it to be in a closed environment until we have checked the content for errors, and only 'members' (ie. students) that can edit it.
Thanks for your 2 cents!