The most interesting success story about Wiki is Heiko Przyhodnik, a biology teacher in Berlin, teamed up with an online school textbook company in Germany called “Schulbuch-O-Mat” in creating free Wiki-style biology e-textbooks. Przyhodnik was very unhappy for the results and outcome of his students’ work. What was even more upsetting was that the textbooks were expensive and the students did not even bother looking over the important content on so many of the pages. This lead to the creation of a Wiki-style biology textbook by Przyhodnik and Schulbuch-O-Mat. This creation helped save money and time for both the students and the teacher. The fact that students could now access the text by using technology excited them to the point that they would actually look it up and read it. It helped the teachers because the students came to class more prepared. The integration of these two has extended the educational level of the students from K through 12. This online biology textbook can be found in Wiki format. Users are free to access and edit it online any way they choose to. These days, Wiki is the first search engine students refer to in order to find information or close to any area they are looking for. If every school from around the world has these free Wiki-style textbooks, students will not waste their time skipping through pages of a real textbook and focus on their subject.
As an Internet researcher, I think Wiki is helpful to future users because it gives them an enormous amount of resources on their subjects. The future of education is very bright. These search engines will also help us in preserving nature.
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