Piotr,
I think this is an excellent topic, FWIW.
And I bet the Wikipedia Education Program would be interested in the
outcomes of this research. And they might be willing to point you to
potential interview candidates (tho, obviously, they have a strong
US/EnWiki bias, so it wouldn't be the complete picture).
Best,
J
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:43 AM Juliana Bastos Marques <domusaurea(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I can add something to this, from my own experiences
and from what
colleagues have told me. Here are some negative feedbacks to the experience
of teaching with Wikipedia. Not in any particular order:
1. Lack of support from the Wikipedia community (reversions, scaring
newbies - depends on the specifics of each language community)
2. Lack of teacher's experience in editing and dealing with the community
(leads to poor management fo issues in 1)
3. Problems with infrastructure in the university
4. Students lacking interest in editing, doing everything in the last
minute and not caring about the outcome after the end of classes.
Piotr, I'm very interested in following your research. I'd love to hear
about studies examining these issues, and how they were/can be overcome.
Greetings,
Juliana
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 4:04 PM Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> wrote:
I am mulling over a new research topic: what
researchers think about
teaching with Wikipedia type of assignment AFTER having tried it? AFAIK
we have a lot of papers on how to teach with Wikipedia, some on effects
on students and some about what instructors think about Wikipedia in
general, but correct me if I am wrong, nobody has actually asked
instructors about their experience with it? And from my personal
experience with seeing such projects on Wikipedia, I think there's a lot
of people who try it once and don't come back and well, do we know why
outside educated guesses?
Right now I am just brainstorming this idea, so any thoughts, up to and
including suggestions for what questions to ask, etc. are appreciated.
Also, I am generally conducting solo research, and all my prior papers
on 'teaching with Wikipedia' have been solo authored (and my goal is as
always to turn this research into publishable paper), but if someone
really, really, really would want to join this project because they love
the idea, and would want to be a co-author of the future paper, and/or
present the results at a WikiSym or such that I sadly go to every five
years or so, feel free to send me a private message. No promises, but I
don't bite :)
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