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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 (you write);
• literature review tool;
• 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. A french version has less but different contents.

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

Status and authoring guidelines

• 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. 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. You may 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.

News:

• September 4 2008. Moved edutechwiki to another machine to make it a bit faster. Upgraded to Mediawiki 1.13. Also managed to destroy the system later at night, but that's fixed now (sept. 5). Disabled guest book (need to install some anti-spam software).
• June 2008. EduTech Wiki - an all-in-one solution to support whole scholarship? (PDF), a best practice paper for EdMedia 2008. There are also slides (PPT). This is my first paper about EduTech Wiki :) - DKS 19 June 2008.
• March 2008: Upgrade to MW 1.12, more extensions added, e.g. "who is online", Graphviz, Edit Warning.
• September 19 2007: Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.11, fixed SVGViz to work with this version, removed the Java visualization (it was getting too big), added "Print as PDF" and some more extensions.
• What other say. Spent 2-3 hours on looking at links and Google statistics about this place - DKS 8 December 2007

(old news)

Courses and workshops

• See Courses and workshops

Overview articles

(more to come)

The field

• The big picture (categories, top contributors and pages)
• Essential reading
• News links (keep in touch)
• 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, AS3, Multimedia, Web 2.0, Portalware)
• Virtual environments
• Writing

Methods

• Design methodologies
• Organization and management
• Research methodologies

Maintenance

under construction, stubs, incomplete.