Audience, Authorship and Assessment in Wiki Projects

June 26, 2007 by Doug Worsham

Audience, authorship, and assessment are key issues in the development of any collaborative writing project.

At the recent International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) conference, Lauren Rosen (UW Collaborative Language Program) and Doug Worsham (L&S LSS) presented on the role of audience, authorship, and assessment in two very different wiki projects – a semester long project in a Japanese course that linked students at a distance and a short term project in a single section of a French course.

The presenters discussed the flexibility of wikis as teaching and learning tools, demonstrating the range of audiences, authorship models, and assessment strategies teachers can consider when designing wiki projects.