Massive open online course using Wikipedia
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This page will serve to elaborate best ways to have Wikipedia assignments on a massive open online course (MOOC). You can see a current proposal here.
Challenges and risks edit
- Signing up for online courses is easy, completing them is hard. It is not unusual for MOOCs to have <10% completion rate.
- Sustainability
- Too many people editing at the same time
- Agile online support
Running examples edit
- Open Access Wikipedia Challenge, P2P University
- Wikipedia: Aim for Featured Article, P2P University
- Contributing to Wikimedia Commons, P2P University
Open source platforms edit
P2PU edit
edX edit
(not actually open source yet, but expected to be)
OpenMOOC edit
Class2Go edit
Closed source platforms edit
Coursera edit
- Report on Bioelectricity course at Duke University
- 12,000 students from 100+ countries, with ~1,000 active weekly
- Report includes loads of detail about how the course materials were created and how it went
Khan Academy edit
Udacity edit
See also edit
External links edit
- College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All, by Tamar Lewin (19 Nov 2012)
- Asimove on self-learning, inspirational! (1988)
- Napster, Udacity, and the Academy, by Clay Shirky (Nov 2012)
- What Wikipedia can tell us about the future of news (Dec 2012)