I am currently offering a course on Wikipedia for undergraduate History students. The course uses both Wikipedia and Moodle, and it's focused on discussions about documents, authorship, etc, and its implications on writing History and/for Wikipedia.
Since the Moodle platform is closed, I created a backup so that you can see what we're doing (currently on week 9 now). It's in Portuguese, but I do hope you can get some of the gist with Google translator. Sorry for the lack of CSS.
http://domusaurea.org/curso_moodle_2012.html
The course starts with discussions and case studies on each of the five pillars, and the first thing the students edit is their userpage (they get very excited with the userboxes). Then they learn how to write on talk pages and create sandboxes, etc. For this course, the students choose articles based on their own research topics (for their final course monograph).
Please feel free to use and adapt this model if you think it can help. Comments are always very welcome.
Juliana.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome idea, Sage; and about time. I'm all for it! SJ
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@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_Cour...
And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
Cheers, Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
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