Wiki and Learning Ma..

Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD
Founder and Director
Supten Institute
Visiting Professor in Health Informatics
Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences
supten [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Wiki and Learning Management
System (LMS)

Learning Objective
•To understand the
comparative features of
a Wiki and an LMS
(Learning Management
System)

References
•http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec35331/
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
•http://moodle.org/
•http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Moodle
•http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
•http://www.networkedcollab.org/vles/2009/07/moodle-and-other-
lmss/
•http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/03/lms-and-social-
learning.html
•http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Learning_management_system
•Kardong-Edgren S. E, Oermann M.H., Ha Y, Tennant M.N., Snelson C.,
Hallmark E, Rogers N, and Hurd D. (2009). Using a Wiki in Nursing
Education and Research, International Journal of Nursing Education
Scholarship,6(1): 6

Plan of Talk
•Introduction
•Wiki
•Learning Management
System (LMS)
•Open Source Features
•Take Home Message

Introduction
A Virtual Learning Environment
(VLE) usually:
is Web-based
Uses Web 2.0 (interactive / social
Web / read and write Web) tools
Simulates real-world educational
modalities
Two examples are Wikis and LMS.