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The Institution was founded by Dr David Richard Namwandi, first as a non-degree awarding body. On 26 October 2002 it obtained University status when it was officially launched by the then state president of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Dr. Sam Nujoma. The university is fully accredited by the Namibia Qualifications Authority and the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE).

The International University of Management (IUM) has its roots in the Institute of Higher Education which was founded in 1994 and is a sole Namibian initiative which started with one student and has now grown into an institution whose student population is currently more that 9,000. IUM open is dedicated to serve the nation.

The intellectual and vocational bases of the university are firmly rooted in Management and ICT. Since its inception, the university has gained recognition as a center of excellence for the teaching of Management Science and ICT disciplines at all levels.

While these disciplines remain the university’s anchor, plans are afoot to diversify its offerings at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the not-too-distant future in order to address different economic needs of management in Namibia. In addition, the university has carried out numerous consultancies on behalf of both the private and public sectors in Namibia.?IUM was officially launched as the first private university in Namibia on 26 April 2002 and its Hi-Tech campus at Dorado Park in Windhoek was inaugurated on 26 April 2011.

The purpose of the university is to educate and train young managers of the future; the young managers who will go out into the world and help to generate work and wealth in those sectors of society where there is most need, demand or opportunity.

The 2022 Part-time Class of INTEGRATING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY II, are working on a project to incorporate WIKINEWS as a teaching tool in their classrooms. It is believed that as a developing country is moving towards being industrialized and industrialization brings technology closer to people and it is in use in their daily lives. It does not only make work easier, but it also makes work efficient and accessible. Therefore, the student teachers want to prepare themselves and makes the best out of their lives. It will be great achievement not only for IUM but also for Namibia to have teachers who are modernizing their classroom and making them enjoyable and attractive for their learners. As A.,Lewis, M. (2013) said as an educator you can Utilize as a hub for group assignments, offering options for revision, tracking contributor participation, and providing a cooperative platform for Learners to indulge with one another. Rasmussen, As a free resource, teachers can create and share their best curriculum and teaching practices, and mix and match lesson plans, videos, animations, and photos to create custom teaching tools. The teacher can use wikinews. Leaners can also play educational games using this link https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/classroom-games/

Leia Dolphy April 21, 2018

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Wikis not only help build a sense of community, but also support collaborative learning through sharing, group work, and peer interactions.Wikis also naturally accommodate different approaches to learning while putting the student at the center of learning.

A teacher can us Wikis support collaborative learning because Wikis can enable groups of students to work together to solve a problem, complete a project, etc.

Wikis promote active learning where students can actively participate in educational activities like writing, discussing, etc .Biasutti, M., & Heba, E. D. (2012).Wiki is more than just a learning tool for students; it’s a communication tool for teachers. Teachers can Use wiki to keep parents informed and post assignments and other class related content. Your wiki page is easily edited and updated so there’s no more need for a last minute trip to the copy machine.

Instead of just another boring academic paper on an historical figure,teachers can make research and documentation fun by creating wiki fan pages. Students can add and edit text, post photos and famous quotes, as well as links to the references they used. For a language teacher, one can Turn grammar into a challenging and competitive game. Have students use wiki to edit text with grammatical errors. Teachers can put students into groups and those with the most edits wins.  Individual edits can also be counted.

For GeographyWiki pages can be used to study geography by giving states or countries their own wiki page. Have students include useful and unique information about each geographical area. Leia Dolphy ( 2018)

References:

Hadjerrouit, S. (2012). Investigating technical and pedagogical usability issues of collaborative learning with wikis. Informatics in Education, 11(1), 45-64.

Churches, A. (2009). Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

Hewege, C. R., & Perera, L. C. R. (2013). Pedagogical significance of wikis: Towards gaining effective learning outcomes. Journal of International Education in Business, 6(1), 51-70.

Hazari, S., North, A., & Moreland, D. (2009). Investigating pedagogical value of wiki technology. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2), 187-198.wikinews is

wikinews is a collaborative tool that allows students to contribute and modify one or more pages of related course material.

In my classroom the instructor provides most lf the cpurse content witb wiki news for students to have an opportunity to crrate together much of the course content.