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Recently studies have shown that college students’ participation in writing, editing, and using a Wikibook as a primary course textbook can not only promote students’ active learning process, but also improve students’ critical thinking skills and high level learning skills.

Many college students ar finding wikis useful when writing research papers. Using wikis allows students to oraganize and gather their thoughts and facts in one place. Wikis are especially useful when working on group projects. By using wikis students can add, delete, or edit information at anytime from anyplace. Students can work from multiple locations while collaborating on the project.

Although the research is still new, because we are seeing positive results then wikis could and should be used more frequently in higher educational settings. Along these lines, institutions of higher education should also look for opportunities to provide professional development for faculty to explore the use of wikis in their course content.

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