New educational approach based on the use of wiki platforms in university environments

Wikis have become increasingly popular both in corporate and educational environments due to the new ways of working collaboratively that they offer, including new ways to improve the learning process of students and employees. Leading universities worldwide have started implementing their own wikis and applying them to different subjects with success, which made more universities follow their example, to the point where nowadays we can find wikis (some of them still in development) in almost all major universities in the world. Nevertheless, not all of the benefits of wikis in multidisciplinary university environments are always obtained; on the contrary many students and teachers do not use it to its full potential. For this reason, and in pursue of a greater understanding of why this occurs and which methods could be implemented to achieve and reach the wikis full educational potential, in this article a particular initiative in a specific subject of the Computer Science degree is described. The results will contribute to further evaluate the viability and develop the potential of the implementation of wiki platforms in other subjects and degrees, in the hopes of reaching a fully functional multidisciplinary wiki.