My current research at UC Berkeley involves MOOCs, and I think one on
Wikipedia could be really effective. As mentioned below, this is one area
where the synchronous cohort model seems particularly poorly-suited, since
editing Wikipedia - and the "on-the-job" learning that happens there - is
itself an asynchronous and perpetual process, so I think it makes sense to
structure the course this way as well. Although I don't think I'll have
time to file for the IEG and run the entire course myself, I would love to
participate in TA-style tasks like helping to set up course content and
exercises, create videos, lead discussions, and/or moderate the forums.
On a related note, another very different MOOC that would also be of
interest to many people is a mini-course on the Wikipedia dataset and
analysis of it, e.g. the dumps and their formats, past research on this
set, etc.
-Derrick
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
ezalvarenga(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Good, Sage! Spreading your proposal to the Portuguese
speakers community!
Tom
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement
Grant proposal for
an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course
about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course'
systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity, edX).
Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands of students, so
there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing
together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching *about*
Wikipedia.
If you're interested, have a look at the proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Cou…
And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
Cheers,
Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
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