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The term '''wiki book''' is ambiguous and means several things:


* A collection of wiki pages about a topic. The best example are the [http://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks] from Wikipedia. Sometimes PDF versions are made available too.
* A print book authored on the wiki and then post-processed for typesetting and minor adjustments
* A real print book prepared on the wiki, but heavly edited once imported to a word processor.
* A collection of wiki articles assembled on the fly by a user into a PDF document.
See also [[open content]] and [[open educational resources]] (OER). Wiki books are a favorite tool for open content authors.
== Why wiki books ==
There are several arguments:
* Wikis are good tools for mass collaboration ([[social computing]]) as well as for fairly large groups work. This idea seems to work in some [http://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks] projects.
* Some people create wiki pages about isolated subjects and that could grow into a collection of related subjects.
* With a wiki one can test (and change in real time) tutorials. These could then be assembled into a printable textbook. E.g. with (lots) of extra work I could do this for my [[Flash tutorials]]. What I do now is to generate PDFs for handouts.
== Software links ==
== Links to wikibooks and organisations that publish them ==
=== Wikipedia books ===
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks] {{quotation|Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 35,021 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!}}, retrieved 11:43, 20 March 2009 (UTC).
* [http://www.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks.org] (List of international Wikibook wikis).
=== Other organizations ===
There are lots of educational organizations that use wikis or similar CMS technology, e.g.
* [http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator]. Some of its contents can be considered virtual books, but you'll have to dig a bit - [[User:Daniel K. Schneider|Daniel K. Schneider]] 11:43, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
* [http://cnx.org/ Connexions]
* [http://www.scholarpedia.org/ Scholarpedia] (not a collection of books actually, but it does include "encyclopedias about subjects")
See also [[open contents]] and [[open educational resources]]
=== Publishing companies ===
* [http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/ck12_remix_and.html Flexbooks]
* http://www.webook.com/ weBook], online writing and reading in several areas
=== Wikibooks in educational technology ===
Orey, M.(Ed.). (2001). Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved <insert date>, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/
== Various links ==
* [http://www.wikinomics.com/ Wikinomics] has some propaganda for the "collective intelligence" argument.
== Bibliography ==
* Barton, Matthew D. et al (n.d.), Rhetoric and Composition, Wikibook, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition. (Good example of a wikibook, but also includes good information on composition and collaborative writing).


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Revision as of 12:43, 20 March 2009

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The term wiki book is ambiguous and means several things:

  • A collection of wiki pages about a topic. The best example are the Wikibooks from Wikipedia. Sometimes PDF versions are made available too.
  • A print book authored on the wiki and then post-processed for typesetting and minor adjustments
  • A real print book prepared on the wiki, but heavly edited once imported to a word processor.
  • A collection of wiki articles assembled on the fly by a user into a PDF document.

See also open content and open educational resources (OER). Wiki books are a favorite tool for open content authors.

Why wiki books

There are several arguments:

  • Wikis are good tools for mass collaboration (social computing) as well as for fairly large groups work. This idea seems to work in some Wikibooks projects.
  • Some people create wiki pages about isolated subjects and that could grow into a collection of related subjects.
  • With a wiki one can test (and change in real time) tutorials. These could then be assembled into a printable textbook. E.g. with (lots) of extra work I could do this for my Flash tutorials. What I do now is to generate PDFs for handouts.

Software links

Links to wikibooks and organisations that publish them

Wikipedia books

  • Wikibooks “Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 35,021 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!”, retrieved 11:43, 20 March 2009 (UTC).

Other organizations

There are lots of educational organizations that use wikis or similar CMS technology, e.g.

See also open contents and open educational resources

Publishing companies

Wikibooks in educational technology

Orey, M.(Ed.). (2001). Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved <insert date>, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/

Various links

  • Wikinomics has some propaganda for the "collective intelligence" argument.


Bibliography