Posts made by Deirdre Bonnycastle

Actually I like Personal and Faculty because my collaborative PLN's are about more than work and I do present at conferences that aren't part of my job. In Canada, faculty usually teach.

Point in fact, my participation in SCoPE is frowned on at work because it is non-medical but I participate out of personal interest.
Faculty here use private wikis collaboratively to write articles and plan events and yes they are very happy to rewrite/reorganize/debate other people's work. I actually know more faculty who use wikis in this way than use them with students. All the committees in my college also have wikis but that is more cooperative. Since I believe that collaboration happens over time, I'm hoping that will change.

Our Master's in Public Health requires students to write team papers and use wikis to do this. They are seeing more collaboration at the end of the course, which supports my idea that collaboration evolves and can't be expected in 1 ofs.