UBC Wiki
Collaborate, create, and share knowledge with UBC Wiki.
The UBC Wiki is an online platform provided by UBC that enables you to collaborate, create, and share knowledge with your fellow students, faculty, and staff. It serves as your centralized space to contribute and access a wide range of information on various subjects, including academic disciplines, campus initiatives, and research projects.
The UBC Wiki encourages your active engagement, empowering you to collaborate on projects, conduct research, and exchange ideas within the UBC community. With its user-friendly interface and wealth of resources, the UBC Wiki is your invaluable tool for knowledge exchange and exploration at UBC.
Features
Wikis are a simple and collaborative space for groups to publish material online. Anyone can edit any piece of content. All revisions are documented and saved, so it is easy to see who made which changes. There is also a discussion space for each page, where editors can explain revisions or work through disagreements.
Key features:
- Compose & Edit: Work collaboratively to create, edit, and publish content.
- Contribute: Revise or add to existing content developed by others.
- Discuss: Utilize the discussion space to pose questions and start conversations with the community.
- Review: Take a look at the revision history to see how the content has evolved over time.
- Encourage interaction and collaboration among students
- Facilitate knowledge building activities where the products of student learning can be shared and used beyond the course
- Promote active learning by allowing instructors to facilitate knowledge creation among students rather than transmitting content
- Allows students to work with others asynchronously outside of class time or in remote locations
- Wikis allow for open editing and access and is an effective way to have people work collaboratively
- People can work together asynchronously, without having to schedule face-to-face meetings
- A record of the revision history is created each time a page is edited, which means users can easily revert back to a previous version
- Expands students’ learning community through interaction with people around the world
- Since anyone can edit, content can become disorganized if not properly managed
- Wikis have a special mark-up language for editing, which requires a slight learning curve
- In order to view and edit content, Internet connectivity is required
- For instructors, grading a Wiki can be overwhelming as it is difficult to keep track of all the students’ contributions when it is constantly being revised
- Dr. Jon-Beasley Murray, Associate Professor of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies | Latin American Studies
- Dr. Rose-Marie Dechaine, Professor of Linguistics | LING300: Studies in Grammar
- Dr. Janice Stewart, Dr. Lori Macintosh, Professors in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice | GRSJ224A: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice in Literature
- Dr. Kathryn Grafton, Professor for English and Co-ordinated Arts Program | ASTU260 Knowledge Dissemination: Communicating Research to Public Audiences
Additional Resources
Consultations
If you would like further support on UBC Wiki, please connect with us to learn more about the tool and its capabilities.
