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WikiVet: building a community of practice to support a self-sustaining wiki for veterinary education

Lookup NU author(s): Gillian BrownORCiD, Professor Megan Quentin-Baxter

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Abstract

A collaborative ‘community of practice’ has been establishedbetween all seven UK veterinary schools to establish ‘WikiVet’(http://www.wikivet.net/), an online, content-and activity-rich wiki to supportveterinary education (facilitated by the Higher Education Academy SubjectCentre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine and funded by theJoint Information Systems Committee). There were strong pedagogic andfinancial reasons to develop a self-sustaining, shared wiki for supportingundergraduate and post-registration veterinary education in the UK. Studentshave developed and maintained the wiki with the support of subject specialistswho reviewed the accuracy and quality of the materials. The community ofpractice relied on communication through face-to-face meetings, Web 2.0 toolsand online chat to decide how and when to update the content. The initial focuson establishing educational content in pathology has now been extended tomost areas of the veterinary curriculum.There has been significant interest across the international veterinarycommunity as the wiki has the potential to engender international participationwhich could substantially increase the user base, breadth and depth of content.Dissemination will continue to raise awareness and uptake of the wiki.

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Author(s): Brown G, Quentin-Baxter M, Belshaw Z

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Web Based Communities

Year: 2010

Volume: 6

Issue: 2

Pages: 183-196

Print publication date: 01/01/2010

Date deposited: 26/04/2010

ISSN (print): 1477-8394

ISSN (electronic): 1741-8216

Publisher: Inderscience

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJWBC.2010.032234

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2010.032234

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