How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2.0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism...

An-excerpt from the book-When Terry McGurk hove the brick through the window of Froelich'sbutcher shop he did it casually, on general principles, and without anyidea of starting anything. He had strolled unexpectedly round the cornerfrom his dad's saloon, had seen the row going on between Froelich andthe gang of boys that after school hours used the street in front of theshop as a ball ground, and had merely seized the opportunity tovindicate his reputation as a desperado and put one over on theDutchman...

Charles Reding was the only son of a clergyman, who was in possession ofa valuable benefice in a midland county. His father intended him fororders, and sent him at a proper age to a public school. He had longrevolved in his mind the respective advantages and disadvantages ofpublic and private education, and had decided in favour of the former...