On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been thinking about exactly this, and doing some preliminary planning > with pair of Wikipedian educators. If done right, Wikipedia MOOCs could > really move the 'active editor' needle and bring in a new generation of > 'natural-born Wikipedians' for whom it hasn't been as easy to dive into > Wikipedia as it was 5 years ago. > > At this point, it seems like Coursera is the only MOOC platform that has the > technology to do the sorts of peer evaluation that would be necessary for > running a Wikipedia course with thousands of students; it has a number of > humanities and arts classes, as well as open-ended technology classes, where > all the grading is done by peers. I've taken one class that had peer > grading, and it was--if not smooth--at least usable for peer evaluation. > > Unfortunately, Coursera professors have to be at universities that are > signed on with Coursera at the institutional level, which means that > bureaucratic and political barriers will be in the way unless the professor > is already at one of the participating universities. > > If any professors on this list have a strong interest in doing a MOOC with a > Wikipedia component, let me know. Awesome to have other people already thinking on that! I've started a draft on meta for those interested in developing the idea http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course_using_Wikipedia Best, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
