Wikiworld - Commons and Education/Critical Pedagogy and Wikis: A Powerful Combination/Wikilearning

Definition:

1) the group is self-organized and volunteer (in opposition to pupils and students as captive audience in the school settings); this naturally includes the option of starting new groups (so-called 'forking’);

2) all (study) materials are available on the basis of open access (content is created under copy left licenses, if licenses are needed at all); and

3) everybody has equal possibility for contributing, commenting and working on the materials right from the start.

4) an additional condition: It is not necessary to limit wikilearning to activities that are mediated by computer networks (in practice, the Internet), as the point of wikilearning is also to disseminate the practices out of the digital sphere into other spheres of life.

A Comparison between Wikilearning vs Traditional (School) Learning