Talk:Using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education (Bookshelf)/Wikipedia Course Syllabus

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General comment[edit]

there are two options:

1) design a operative model within a regular seminar; wikipedia as a tool => ~6-8 weeks + evaluation and presentation

=> it would be a waste of time, personal ressources and potential contributions to do nothing on wiki between account-creating in week one and wikipedia basics in five and six

2) design a comprehensive seminar model of a term.

=> it would be difficult to model an interdisciplinary system by synthesize the didactical input of the regular university modules and the specific wikipedia module without severely restrict the academic freedom of the lecturers (i wouldn't recommend it because most of them the wouldn't accept that; imho) Added on June 10, 2010 by User:Jan eissfeldt

Thanks a lot for the feedback. As for your concern about the big space of time between creating a user account and starting to contribute: I've moved the students' creation of user accounts to a later point -- hope that will help keeping the momentum. --Frank Schulenburg 21:52, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline[edit]

Are we only creating a single recommended timeline? Maybe instead of weeks, we should include "stages", which can be mapped onto courses at whatever pace works best with the course structure. Some courses (e.g., summer term) have more class periods in a shorter time, and some universities are on trimester systems with shorter courses than the typical semester. As long as we have a clear order of things that need to be done, in approximately equal units in terms of time commitment, it should be easy for professors to adapt that to their own courses.--Sage Ross 18:26, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I chose weeks to help the reader to understand how much time he/she will need for each stage. I agree that it needs to be mentioned that this is an example, and professors should create their own timeline based on what works best for them. Thanks for your feedback! --Frank Schulenburg 20:49, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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