[Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Hello, I have already discussed this work on the mailing list two months ago. You may now find the preprint on Wikipapers: http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/File:Wikipedia_E-Learning_Model_Preprint.pdf The typo might be somehow hazardous; this is my first scholar publication in English

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Fred Bauder
I've just started reading this, but a few thoughts right off: As every experiment it should be reproducible This is not possible because Wikipedia has a world-wide audience and is a top 10 website. No comparable can be expected to develop. Also, compared to using Wikipedia in junior high or

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Pierre-Carl Langlais
Thanks for your feedback I've just started reading this, but a few thoughts right off: As every experiment it should be reproducible This is not possible because Wikipedia has a world-wide audience and is a top 10 website. No comparable can be expected to develop. My evaluation of wiki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Fred Bauder
Truth is a relative virtue, that mostly depends on the effectivity of social procedures and norms. Wikipedia makes no such claim; only that it is a summary of generally accepted knowledge. Fred Hello, I have already discussed this work on the mailing list two months ago. You may now find the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Fred Bauder
meaning is not the product of a one-sided teaching, but of a dialogical exchange between two seemingly equal human consciousness Again, we do not aspire to meaning nor to dialog only to consensus regarding the corpus of generally-accepted information. Even calling it knowledge is a stretch. It is

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Han-Teng Liao
Hello Pierre-Carl Langlais, I believe that [Wiki-research-l] can use more research like yours that attempts to generalize the findings from the previous literature. Have you considered using meta-analyses of case studies so as to provide a bit more methodological grounding? I am not a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Is Wikipedia a Relevant Model for E-Learning?

2013-04-27 Thread Joe Corneli
Is Wikipedia a relevant model for e-learning? This title invites skepticism b/c, a priori, Wikipedia is a website, not a model. Paragogy, which you mention -- thanks! -- might be closer: it at least contains the seeds of a model of learning. Theoretical precision is still work in progress - I'd