A wiki is a useful tool in the promotion of online collaborative learning.
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.
A wiki enables documents to be written very collaboratively, in a simple markup language using a web browser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
The simplest online database that could possibly work.
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
Comment: I believe a Wiki is an interesting way to collectively create an online resource of information, that can be changed, edited and added to at any time. This could become a very useful tool in education, as all students will be able to access information from home from the one place, while also having the opportunity to make additions to help others. Collaborative learning is a signficant element that is having continuing focus in education, along with constant influences of technology, hence a Wiki is a useful and exciting way to combine these two elements.
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