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Using MediaWiki as an efficient data repository and ubiquitous learning tool : an Australian example
The functionality of MediaWiki ensures it is a valuable learning repository for sharing and storing information. Constructivist learning can be promoted alongside a wiki repository and various wireless u-learning tools such as mobile phones and digital cameras, to encourage students to gather and share a range of primary and secondary information in a variety of subject areas. This paper outlines one initiative adopted at an Australian University specialising in distance education, which uses a MediaWiki as the primary method for content delivery. Over a period of three-years, the Drugs, Crime and Society wiki has evolved into an organic information repository for storing and accessing current research, press and drug agency material that supplements core themes examined in each topic of the curriculum. A constructivist approach has been employed to encourage students to engage in a range of assessable and non-assessable information sharing activities. The paper also demonstrates how the Drugs, Crime and Society wiki can be accessed through various wireless u-learning technologies, which enables students undertaking field placements to add and share primary information with other students and practitioners working in the drugs field.
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Ubiquitous learning, an international journalVolume
2Issue
1Pagination
21 - 37Publisher
Common Ground PublishingLocation
Champaign, Ill.ISSN
1835-9795Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2010, (individual papers), the author(s)Usage metrics
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