On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:25 AM, phoebe ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=15031&PRODUCT_CODE=ELI082/SESS07&bhcp=1 > > "To enhance the learning experience of a term paper, students were > required to publish their papers in Wikipedia. Publishing for a large > audience provided authentic feedback and encouraged students to do > their best work. Using Wikipedia also allowed students to connect with > a vibrant community and share their knowledge by making their papers > publicly accessible." > > I haven't watched the profession, but the sentence "students were > required to publish their papers in Wikipedia" makes me cringe. One > can only hope the professors introduced them to (or understood) the > norms and policies of the site, and didn't require original > research... > Yes, there are clear differences in methodology between a term paper and a Wikipedia article (completely aside from wiki versus non-wiki), as well as in genre of writing style, which is certainly non-trivial. But I still admire people who are taking the initiative in this regard - even if they are making mistakes (provided they/we learn from those mistakes!). There is an interesting ongoing writeup by an educator in the University of British Colombia about his experiences of a similar project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness Cormac
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