Our belief is that synchronous communication facilitates much more meaningful discussion than does asynchronous posting. With respect to the notion of wikistructors, our belief is that people will have an interest in speaking w experts on various subjects in connection w their searches and readings on Wikipedia.
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Where specifically do you think it would go? Why would people use it? I've thought about this in some ways around co-editing, or collaborative information seeking activities.
Simon
From: education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 04 April 2014 23:42 To: education@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
Why would you want to do this? Is there a benefit to you and your company?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Levy jeff@o10s.com To: education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 3:36 pm Subject: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
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How do you propose experts should be selected? So far all attempt inworld seem to have failed pretty miserably
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Levy jeff@o10s.com To: education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 1:23 pm Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
Our belief is that synchronous communication facilitates much more meaningful discussion than does asynchronous posting. With respect to the notion of wikistructors, our belief is that people will have an interest in speaking w experts on various subjects in connection w their searches and readings on Wikipedia.
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Where specifically do you think it would go? Why would people use it? I've thought about this in some ways around co-editing, or collaborative information seeking activities.
Simon
From: education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 04 April 2014 23:42 To: education@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
Why would you want to do this? Is there a benefit to you and your company?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Levy jeff@o10s.com To: education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 3:36 pm Subject: [Wikimedia Education] An idea
We are very interested in bringing real-time discussion to Wikipedia. We'd like to use our Online Collaboration Platform (acutally a modified, Open-Source variant) to enable the creation of a community of "Wikistructors" - experts who are available to speak with (or text with) anyone who is on Wikipedia and wants to talk. We can also enable people to connect with others who are on the same page or who have recently been on that page (assuming all parties wish to be contacted of course). These connections would enable on-demand live chat, audio and/or video conversation.
I'm throwing this out there for comments/questions/thoughts.
Thanks!
Jeff
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On Apr 5, 2014 8:09 PM, "Jeff Levy" jeff@o10s.com wrote:
... synchronous communication facilitates much more meaningful discussion than does asynchronous posting.
Have you consulted authors of topical peer reviewed literature reviews to ask their opinion on that question? It depends on the complexity of the subject of instruction, whether motor skills are involved or it's only cerebral, the extent of certainty in the subject matter area, and the extent to which the subject matter is not emotionally charged.