All, This press release should be of particular interest to CZ editors. I hope that you, in particular, will consider making CZ article writing part of your winter/spring course assignments. Please also forward this around your academic mailing lists. We want to spread the word far and wide! Please help with that--just a few seconds of your time, and potentially, whole classes join CZ.
My thanks especially to Lee Berger for drafting the release and getting behind this. Lee has other exciting news in the hopper, which we will be part of. Thanks also to Sorin Matei for getting behind the original idea. They are the guys to talk to if you want advice on how to get started. --Larry =========== University Assignments Going Cyber Citizendium Announces "Eduzendium" Initiative (Read at: http://tinyurl.com/ysknjo) January 24, 2008 - In a radical departure from traditional methods of teaching, a new way for students to gain course credits is emerging. As with so much else this decade, it is all down to the Internet. Traditional teaching saw students laboring to produce essays that to them felt onerous and oftentimes pointless. Once read by the lecturer their writing was generally consigned to the dustbin. For some students, that situation is now radically changing. In a never-before-seen new initiative, the online reference encyclopedia project Citizendium (http://www.citizendium.org), in collaboration with expert teachers and lecturers, has launched Eduzendium. The Eduzendium project allows students to write their assignments online on the Citizendium on a given topic allocated by their teacher. [...] Read the whole thing: http://tinyurl.com/ysknjo _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
