Wiki Works in the History and Humanities Classroom shows how teachers and students--working together as learning partners--can use interactive wiki technologies to transform the teaching of history and humanities topics through web-based research and inquiry-based learning. In its e-text and print editions, the book presents teaching strategies and technology integration examples from resourcesforhistoryteachers and other open educational content wikis. Written for K-12 history/social studies and humanities teachers, college and university-level teacher educators, and college students who are preparing to become classroom teachers in middle and high schools, there are separate chapters focus on using teacher and student-made wikis to address curriculum standards, teach web research and digital literacy, explore dramatic historical events, develop historical biographies, connect influential literature, discuss special topics, and build flipped learning instructional lessons.


Robert W. Maloy is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst where he coordinates the history and political science teacher license program. He is co-author of seven books including Transforming Learning with New Technologies and We, The Students and Teachers: Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom. Allison Malinowski is a History and Global Studies Teacher and Academic Technologist at the Williston-Northampton in Easthampton, Massachusetts. She is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst focusing on technology integration and the preparation of new teachers.