Peer Review

ELATEwiki: the Electronic Learning And Teaching Exchange

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Overview:: ELATEwiki is a free wiki focused on a broad span of issues related to e-learning. All e-learning faculty and staff are invited to join and participate in sharing information, insights and research regarding e-learning courses, tools, students, and instructor concerns.
Type of Material:: This is a wiki that has grown into a strong collection of contemporary issues and innovations in e-learning.
Recommended Uses:: Professional development for e-learning teachers and developers.
Technical Requirements:: Web access and enough bandwidth to access both text and video formats.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: Information categorized and organized into e-learning and teaching topics.
Target Student Population:: E-learning instructors, staff, course developers and e-learning tool developers.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: An interest in issues related in e-learning.

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Strengths:: This is a WIKI - the content can be fixed by users who find something inaccurate and out-of-date. A wide variety of issues are catalogued and each has varying degrees of usable information available.
Concerns:: This is a WIKI - the authority is not always justified. More references would improve the site. Some areas offer considerably less information than others, although the nature of a wiki means that more will be added.

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Strengths:: The wiki is designed as a place to build community and network for all of those who have an interest in electronic learning environments and opportunities, and to provide support for all those who join the community. It appears to be doing that very well.
Concerns:: It is difficult to keep up with the new tools that emerge daily.

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Strengths:: Creating an account, logging on, editing pages or creating new pages/topics, and setting up a personal watchlist for topics of interest are all done easily and quickly. Links to all tools are easy to find, clearly marked, and easy to use. The Main Page and View Pages Related provide effective organization.
Concerns:: A few parts of the organization do not make sense: "Attendance and Participation" under "instructor" and not under "Students."

Other Issues and Comments:: This wiki has only been in existence for 3 months at the time of this review, and it already has a wealth of information for those engaged in e-learning. Content so far seems to be well documented.
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