LLP – KA3 ICT multilateral projects D 2.1– European state of the art report WikiSkills Empowering and fostering social, professional, cultural and civic skills through pedagogical use of Wiki technologies and methodologies. DELIVERABLE 2.1– European state of the art report Work Package: 2 Task No: 2.1 Task Responsible: HEIG-VD Miguel Alarcón, Florence Devouard, Anna Coordinated by : Bauer, Frédérique Frossard Contributors: All partners Due date of deliverable: (31/03/2012) Actual submission date: (31/03/2012) Project N°: 519291-LLP-1-2011-1-CH-KA3-KA3MP 1/101 LLP – KA3 ICT multilateral projects D 2.1– European state of the art report Pages Version Date Authors Changes Changed Added Deleted 1 24/03/12 2 30/04/12 Global graphs 3 25/05/12 QA modifications The WIKI-Skills project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Status: Definitive Version Project N°: 519291-LLP-1-2011-1-CH-KA3-KA3MP 2/101 LLP – KA3 ICT multilateral projects D 2.1– European state of the art report Summary WikiSkills -Empowering and fostering social, professional, cultural and civic skills through pedagogical use of Wiki technologies and methodologies- is a project partially funded by the European Commission, Lifelong Learning Programme Centralized, KA3 Multilateral projects (2012- 2013). In this perspective, Deliverable 2.1 – European state of the art report – aims at describing the situation in Europe regarding Wiki tools uses within the 4 LLP target groups. To this end, a desktop research and a selection of good practices have been conducted in each partner country, in order to identify the status of those wiki tools in European educational environments. Moreover, the report includes an on-line national survey addressed to educational practitioners of each partner country. To facilitate the readability of this document, the following table summarizes the project’s partners, acronyms and countries. Acronym Partner full name Country YORG Fondation Ynternet.org Switzerland die Berater "die Berater" Unternehmensbertungs GmbH Austria EA Ellinogermaniki Agogi School Greece UB University of Barcelon Spain MAC-Team Pôle Européen des Coopérations Multi-Acteurs (aisbl) Belgium HEIG-VD Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du canton de Vaud Switzerland CESGA Fundación Centro Tecnológico de Supercomputación de Galicia Spain Wikimedia.se Wikimedia Sverige Sweden (Table 1.1: WikiSkills consortium) The present document sums up the results of the desktop research of wiki tools, existing projects, good practices and results of the national on-line survey. Finally, an analysis of success factors using wikis in educational contexts is included as a result of the previous parts of the report. This document will be, together with D2.2 -Needs analyse report-, the bases of the Pedagogical Framework. Project N°: 519291-LLP-1-2011-1-CH-KA3-KA3MP 3/101 LLP – KA3 ICT multilateral projects D 2.1– European state of the art report Table of Contents 1.Literature review............................................................................................................................6 1.1.General definition and history of wiki..........................................................................................6 1.2 Use of wikis in educational context. Collaborative learning......................................................13 1.3 Comparison between wiki and other tools................................................................................19 1.4 Legal consideration about wikis................................................................................................23 2.Existing platforms.......................................................................................................................27 2.1 Analysis of existing wiki software.............................................................................................27 2.2 Analyse of existing wiki farms...................................................................................................35 2.3 Wikimatrix, a reference website................................................................................................40 3.Existing wiki based projects......................................................................................................41 3.1 Wikipedia..................................................................................................................................41 3.2 Wikibooks.................................................................................................................................41 3.3 Wikitravel..................................................................................................................................42 3.4 Appropedia...............................................................................................................................42 3.5 Ekopedia...................................................................................................................................42 3.6 Vikidia.......................................................................................................................................43 3.7 Minecraft Wiki...........................................................................................................................43 3.8 MeatballWiki.............................................................................................................................44 3.9 Scholarpedia.............................................................................................................................44 3.10 Jurispedia...............................................................................................................................45 3.11 Kinesiology.............................................................................................................................45 3.12 WikiEducator..........................................................................................................................46 4. Good Practices...........................................................................................................................47 4.1 Collaborative storytelling with wikis..........................................................................................47 4.2 Learning scenario CESGA.......................................................................................................50 4.3 Learning scenario Communication and Networking.................................................................53 4.4 PhD students and young researchers to create and disseminate expert content....................56 4.5 Learning scenario Photo hunt...................................................................................................61 Project N°: 519291-LLP-1-2011-1-CH-KA3-KA3MP 4/101 LLP – KA3 ICT multilateral projects D 2.1– European state of the art report 4.6 Villa Mimmi – portraying fellow humans using a wiki 1............................................................65 4.7 Learning scenario Wiki writing on paper..................................................................................68 5. Results of national survey.........................................................................................................71 5.1 Introduction...............................................................................................................................71 5.2 National results.........................................................................................................................71 5.3 Global Graphs results...............................................................................................................86 5.4 Conclusions..............................................................................................................................94 6. success factors using wikis in educational context...............................................................95 6.1 Introduction...............................................................................................................................95 6.2 Advantages...............................................................................................................................95 6.3 Barriers.....................................................................................................................................96 6.4 Success Factors.......................................................................................................................96 6.5 Conclusions..............................................................................................................................98 References....................................................................................................................................100 Project N°: 519291-LLP-1-2011-1-CH-KA3-KA3MP 5/101 LLP – KA3 ICT multilateral projects D 2.1– European state of the art report 1. LITERATURE REVIEW This section aims at introducing the concept of wiki from their history, going through collaborative learning and wiki applications in educational contexts and finally a comparison between wikis and other similar software’s and tools. This will give us a general vision and state of wiki tools to going through next steps of the document. 1.1. General definition and history of wiki 1.1.1.Definition of