Has anyone utilized or linked E-Learning Content through a Wiki?

I'd love to find out too. This community is usually pretty friendly. If anyone has done even a little, please feel free to come out of the woodwork...

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I went to a conference recently where there was a lot of talk about wikis, but none of the presenters could answer my question to my satifaction - If I'm being asked to create an online course on safety compliance, how is a wiki going to help?

Well, I think I was not happy with their answers because I was asking the wrong question. I was thinking of the old structure of creating an online course and pushing it out and then moving onto developing the next online course. Wikis do not fit that structure. Instead, they fit a more collaborative, give-and-take learning structure which is where things seem to be moving. Which is good (keep repeating this to yourself) because collaborative learning can be very effective.

So, here are two examples of wikis being used as a piece in an overall collaborative learning structure. Both use wikis as corporate intranets:

Wiki example

Example 2

All that being said, until I convince the powers-that-be otherwise, I still have to develop my online compliance/regulation courses but may implement a wiki in two ways:

1) In one blended training, employees take an online course before attending a classroom training. We are thinking of implementing a wiki to gather and share feedback on the online course before they meet in person.

2) In another safety online course, I am thinking of implementing a wiki accessible at the end of the course to provide users with an opportunity to give feedback, augment the content with their own personal experiences or just read what other people said about the course.

Each of these will take convincing my IT friends to allow the use of a wiki, so they may not get past the conceptual stage.

Good luck. I am hoping to hear other ideas.

scott

Scott is right on the money about where Wiki's apply right now. They are not meant to produce a SCORM course. There's a product: Prescribe

that claims to be exactly that, but in reality you use a Wiki more as a means to produce reference material that doesn't need to be individually tracked.

We've often created what I call a reference hybrid solution where you embed things like Captivate simulations inside the Wiki content.

I'm going to be working on some more examples for upcoming presentations. So, stay tuned to my blog:

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