Wikipedia Assignments in Online Courses
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Michael Lindeman
I attended the Featured Presentation at eLearning 2009 in Portland, OR. titled The Urgency of Open Education by Brian Lamb, Manager, Emerging Technologies and Digital Content, Office of Learning Technology, The University of British Columbia.
Brian presented a fast-paced survey of open education opportunities, evangelizing the merits of open standards. He has posted a lot of links to open education examples here. He writes about his experiences using Wikis in an Educause article here.
Brian gave an overview or a very cool wiki project titled WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem. Here is the description from wikipedia: “The University of British Columbia’s class SPAN312 (”Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation”) contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project’s end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles.”
El Señor Presidente is an example of one of the featured articles created during the course.
Wikipedia has an article listing Educational Projects.
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