The L&D Benefits of Contributing to Wikis (Learning Thursday #17)

This Learning Thursday article builds on a previous article about participatory learning.

According to Cress & Kimmerle, individual learning occurs:

“As a result of externalization (due to processes of deeper processing and elaboration which are activated by the externalization process), “As a result of internalization (due to the simple adding of new knowledge units) and “As a result of inferences (due to the expansion of a person’s individual knowledge space through internalization and, arising from that, an opportunity to interconnect old and new knowledge units, i.e. inferences of knowledge units that were unknown until then).”