Wiki: A new paradigm for online training and development of faculty

Abstract

The training and development function in organisations is undergoing a paradigm shift with the advent of new online technologies like the wiki and educational institutions are no exception. Wiki may provide a means for creating a faculty learning community at educational institutions, thus involving all faculty on a single common platform where each faculty is the producer as well as the user of knowledge. This paper proposes a model for the deployment of wiki for online training and development of faculty in educational institutions. The model is implemented at an online university and preliminary findings indicate that wiki activity by all faculty members is low suggesting the need of further experimentation in the use of wiki as a collaborative T&D tool for online faculty. © 2007 Evelyn Gullett and Kanishka Bedi.