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?
>
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