Wikis in der Hochschullehre - Aktives Lernen in Lerngemeinschaften an der Uni St. Gallen

Abstract

Responding to an increasingly growing gap between our current learning and teaching culture and technological as well as socio-cultural developments, this paper postulates active learning in learning communities as the anchor for a new learning culture. After a brief overview of wiki-technology and related pedagogicdidactical challenges, it is asked, how active learning utilizing wikis can be fostered in higher education. For this purpose, the paper discusses technologicorganizational as well as socio-cultural and pedagogic-didactical issues related to a newly designed seminar which was first conducted at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in summer term 2007. Finally, results from a student survey and from students' reflections, during and at the end of the semester, will be outlined.