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Welcome to EduTech Wiki

EduTech Wiki is about Educational Technology (instructional technology) and related fields and was built at TECFA - an educational technology research and teaching unit at University of Geneva.

Objectives - this wiki can be used as:

• resource kit for educational technology teaching;
• note taking tool for researchers and advanced practitioners in educational technology (you write);
• literature review tool for all interested persons;
• writing-to-learn environment for students (they write).

Some materials may be useful to teachers, instructional designers, e-learning consultants, etc. (but it's not the main purpose of this site).

Actually there are 1,965 articles on this wiki. There is also a french version with less but different contents. You also can visualize relationships in SVG or Java (see the toolbox to your left or the special pages).

If you have questions, send a mail to Daniel K. Schneider (he "owns" this wiki and is to blame for most contents). Other major contributors are/were Kalli Benetos and Stéphane Lattion. We also get help from people out of cyberspace, thanx to you all !

Authors and status

• For DKS, this Wiki is first of all a note taking and "mapping out" tool: Most articles lack content, depth, style, authority or all four together, however the idea is to gradually improve at least certain articles.
• Anybody is welcome to participate, but please read the editing rules and the copyright notice. Note that you can sign your contributions and express opinions. This is not Wikipedia. We also very much appreciate people fixing little mistakes (spelling, grammar, references,...) !
• University teachers may bring classes to EduTech Wiki for writing activities (please read this if you plan so).
• If you are new to wiki technology, please browse through help and then make some tests in our SandBox.
• Maintenance categories (find unfinished articles): under construction, stubs, incomplete.

News:

• September 2007: New version of SVGViz. I also started using this wiki to write tutorials (e.g. about Flash).
• July 5 2007: Minor updates of SVGViz and JavaViz extensions (UTF-8 titles and DB prefixes fixed).
• June 28 2007. Added a trail on top of each page. Works if a user is logged in (hopefully this is not too much resource gobbling).
• June 25 2007. Romain finished the Beta 2 version of the Mediawiki SvGViz extension (follow this link for more information).
• ICOOL 2007, June 11-14 - I prepared my stuff with this note taking tool - DKS
• June 1 2007. Upgrade to 1.10.0
• May 2007. Again Lamericaana's students contributed. Thanx :) How about calling her course "foreign language teaching 2.0" ?
• Spring 2007. Several new users got a login and fixed mistakes (grammar and others). Thanx to all of you :)

(old news)

Courses and workshops

• COAP 2110 | ICOOL 2007 modelling languages | Staf2x 2006

Overview articles

(more to come)

The field

• The big picture (categories, top contributors and pages)
• Essential reading
• Educational technology

Learning and teaching

• Learning theory
• Pedagogic strategy

Instructional design

• Instructional design
• Instructional design model
• Project-oriented learning

Technology

• Educational technologies
• E-learning

Method

• Instructional design method

Categories

• All Categories of this Wiki (there are more !)

Learning and teaching

• Affect and motivation
• Collaborative learning
• Educational theories
• Instructional theories
• Learning theories
• Metacognition and learning strategies
• Pedagogic strategies

Instructional design

• Example cases
• Instructional design methods
• Instructional design models
• Pedagogical scenarios
• Project-oriented models

Technology

• Cognitive tools
• E-learning tools
• Educational modeling languages
• Educational technologies
• Social computing
• Standards
• Technologies

(e.g. XML, Flash, Multimedia, Web 2.0, Portalware)

• Virtual environments
• Writing

Methods

• Design methodologies
• Organization and management
• Research methodologies