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There are numerous effective applications of wikis that can be used to promote the primary curriculum. The generation of e-textbooks allows for linked student-created study guides. A digital glossary of terms used for each subject facilitates student edits, the addition of new terms and hyperlinks to new blocks of learning. A ‘posts’ environment for group assignments promotes self-directed study and peer editing with teacher monitoring through mediation and correction (Wikibooks, online).

Engstrom and Jewett (2005) studied a middle school curriculum that employed wikis finding that wikis promoted collaborative content creation and editing. The participation of wiki members in developing “meaningful topic associations”  (Leuf & Cunningham, 2001)   via linked wikis creates a nurturing community for the eClassroom based on both collaboration and self-directed learning.