Students at Mount Royal's Bissett School of Business are getting hands-on experience in the real world, and they are doing it online. Thirty students are enrolled in what's called a 'Wiki Classroom', as part of their entrepreneurship program. They were given a project to take a company's strategic model and invent ways to better the company's objectives and goals. They did extensive research and then presented the results of their work to the business, but they did it through the newest collaborative concepts available. "The idea is to try and mimic in the class room what happens in the real world, with the wiki work place and some of the new collaborative technologies that are being used and called for," says Dr. Alex Bruton, Entrepreneurship Instructor at the Bissett School of Business.

This concept is believed to be the first 'Wiki Classroom' to hit Canada's business schools. The students used Web 2.0 technologies, such as Google docs, which allow them to work with other students online. They are able to post their research, then filter through the ideas to share with the company. The hope of the 'Wiki Classroom' is that the students will take what they've learned in the class and online, and apply it to the real world.