Reflections on use of wiki.
Wiki is new tool to me and I find to be user friendly. It certainly something I would like to start up right away for a course or even for research group. One can collect all information whether text, pictures, video and updated publication on websites using RSS. Wiki is combination of website, interactive site for discussion so it would be ideal for course or workshop. In our context in Global Health characteristic of our PhD students is that they are not at KI full-time, therefore this would create an academic virtual space where they can catch up with missed seminar or even other academic events.
Wiki gives the option to allow more than one person to set up yet limit the to selected group. To use it for a course will be very useful in terms of reviewing and evaluation past courses where written feedback and/or interaction can be traced back. In addition course wiki could be data source for future educational/pedagogic research.
the disadvantage I can think of at this stage is that once we get trained and start using it, if KIcommons is discontinued. Therefore I would reccomend it to be used for courses and perhaps combined with other IT tools to enhance opportunities.