I didn't know about it. It seems very interesting: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/docs/instructors/
.. but I don't see very clear if it goes in the same direction as Sugata Mitra (great great video, by the way) Pau. 2013/2/27 James Salsman <[email protected]> > This year the TED conference awarded their top prize to this talk by > Sugata Mitra entitled "Build a School in the Cloud": > http:// > http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html > > The point of the talk is asking for educational technologists to > design and offer peer-oriented learning systems. But such systems > already exist. The most advanced of which at present is called > PeerWise: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ > > In short, PeerWise is an automated self-study, low-stakes assessment > system where both questions and answers are edited and reviewed by > anyone (with access; in practice this usually means anyone enrolled in > a course or major at an institution) very similarly to textual content > in a wiki. It is already being used successfully at hundreds of higher > education and other institutions. But sadly it's closed source. I > have since 2009 been trying to encourage the Foundation to build an > open source version of such a system. > > Is there anyone else interested in this? > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >
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