Hi Kerry,
This research project was really conducted to examine a couple different
things at once. This project was designed to provide data for researchers
trying to understand learning with Wikipedia. Wiki Ed's dashboard was
perfect for this because students participation was already were being
Thanks, Zach, for the explanation of these things. I realise the goals of
WikiEd was not to be a research project but achieve other goals in relation to
Wikipedia, in which it seems to be very successful from your data.
I suspect part of my confusion relates to the terms “instructor”,
Hi Kerry,
Thanks for the feedback! I'll reply to a couple of your points below:
One observation I would make is that like many education experiments, it
> does not control for (what I call) the "highly motivated researcher
> effect". What I've learned from a lifetime of "new ways to teach" is
