Wikis in teaching and assessment: the M/Cyclopedia project
Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Wikis
Is there a space for the teacher in a WIKI?
Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis
Wikibooks in higher education: Empowerment through online distributed collaboration
Computers in Human Behavior
USAB '08 Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for Education and Work
Creating Community through the Use of a Class Wiki
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Understanding learning: the Wiki way
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Um ambiente baseado na web 2.0 para educaçao médica construtivista
Proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
Wiki-based collaborative learning: incorporating self-assessment tasks
WikiSym '08 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Wikis
Trust-based peer assessment for virtual learning systems
SocInfo'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Social informatics
Facilitating content creation and content research in building the city of lit digital library
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
The success of corporate wiki systems: an end user perspective
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
The "City of Lit" digital library: a case study of interdisciplinary research and collaboration
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
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Wikis are being used in educational settings more and more but they are often installed within existing institutional Learning Management Systems (LMS) and as such are private, readable and editable only with a password, or semi-public, readable but not editable without a password. What differentiates the use of social software tools such as wikis in the classroom from other traditional computer mediated communication (CMC) tools is that they enable communication between people and knowledge sharing beyond the limits of the classroom and classroom activities. This paper investigates whether or not closing a wiki limits the very potential the tool has in education. Based on a brief review of the literature on wikis in education, the first section discusses how the benefits of wikis might be greater when they are public. This is followed by a description of two courses carried out at the University of Padua, one using a semi-public wiki and the other a public wiki. The same groups of students contributed to both wikis over two semesters and conclusions on the advantages and disadvantages of using a public wiki are drawn from a qualitative analysis of the data gathered. The preliminary findings are then used to suggest that a compromise between public and private wikis in education might provide the ideal learning environment.