Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Flipping the Biology Class with Wikis
 

Ravindra Malik & Keith Hamon

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2012, Volume 33

Abstract

Wikis provide several advantages for the biology classroom. As an online space, a biology class wiki helps students engage each other, the class content, and the instructor in a medium that they are comfortable with. Wikis also help flip a classroom by shifting the transfer of course content from the classroom to the Internet. Wikis organize a classroom, promote student collaborations, brainstorming, note taking, and project-based learning, and encourage students to create multimedia documents that use text, image, sound, video, and hyperlinks to communicate. Finally, wikis are easy.

Keywords:  computer-aided instruction, multimedia, wikis

New Mexico State University (2011)