I work as an instructional designer/technologist in a polytechnic in Singapore. I'm not a programmer though. I am also taking a Master of Art in Instructional Design & Technology at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. Currently working on a Master's thesis on the use of Tikiwiki in educational settings.
My Experiences with Wikis
My colleagues and I started using MediaWiki for project management and training planning/scheduling around August last year, when our reporting officer went on maternity leave.
Towards the end of 2004, I started tinkering with TikiWiki. Piloted a knowledge building exercise with a lecturer in our polytechnic in Feb this year (2005), followed by a few more other kinds of exercises with two other lecturers. To date, I see a number of issues that need to be resolved:
Grouping of pages by project groups
Restriction of page access by project group members
Assessment of individual and group contributions on the wiki
Checks for plagiarism (e.g. submission to turnitin.com)
Duplication of wiki page names, etc.
Have upgraded to 1.9.1. Now eyeing Akira MultiTiki - but at a loss at how to execute the command line instructions given through my web host's Control Panel.
Open for Discussion
I am keen to discuss in more detail on the use of Tikiwiki in educational institutions.