This looks exciting, I'll have to explore more! Given this conversation perhaps people
on this list would be interested in having a look at the mooc Wikipedia page - which is ok
at the moment but could certainly be improved if people have ideas....
Cheers
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: education-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of Sage Ross
Sent: 23 February 2013 21:53
To: Wikimedia Education
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:01 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Sage Ross
<ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
...
we're shooting to develop the content beginning in June and start
the course around September, on Coursera.
Sage, this might be a great opportunity to ask Coursera to open source
their delivery system soon, and if they refuse you might want to
consider a free content open source platform such as Moodle (which has
abundant free hosting) or
https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ or
http://www.sakaiproject.org/ (formerly Stanford CourseWork.)
I'm very interested in porting the course to other, more open MOOC platforms if it
goes well.
In terms of a Coursera-like experience, it looks like Class2Go (also out of Stanford) is a
promising project. It's an open source project started by some of the Stanford
professors who had previously done some of the courses that laid the groundwork for
Coursera. (I took Jennifer Widom's databases course the term before Coursera launched,
and it had pretty much the same format as Coursera now uses; Widom is now doing the same
course with Class2Go.)
edX is also expected to become open source at some point soon. (I've not used their
platform, but I expect it will also be strong.)
P2PU is still evolving, and porting the course to there would mean some format
changes--typical P2PU classes are more go-at-your-own-pace-independently affairs--but I
think it'd be worth doing.
Wikimedia UK is using Moodle for their "Virtual Learning Environment"
project, which I'm eager to check out sometime soon.
-Sage
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