Sunday, September 12, 2010

Wikis for Accreditation Self-Study

Folks --

We're gearing up for our accreditation process, and starting to think about
how to put together our self-study. A wiki (or Google Docs) leap to mind as
an obvious way of creating such an extensive collaborative document.

But, we're the cautious sort, and wonder what the unanticipated "gotchas"
are in using an online tool for generating a document like this. Has anyone
else done this recently (on either end of the accreditation process) and
have words of wisdom to share?

We're looking particularly at two questions:

1. Longevity? What if we need to access these documents... say, ten years
down the road for another self-study.
2. Presentation? Just pass the accreditation committee a link and shrug?
Download and laboriously reformat (thereby losing some efficiency that we
might have gained...)?

Thanks for your insights and reflections.

-- S

Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323) 638-7384

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