[TOS] Wikipedia edges out term papers - The Daily Collegian Online

[Stephen Ewen]

Wikipedia competitor Citizendium has an Eduzendium Project just for this 
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Eduzendium and there are many more 
article topics available for authoring, plus an academic environment to 
boot.

Stephen Ewen, M.Ed.
UberStudent Linux
http://uberstudent.org


On 07/31/2010 11:39 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Karlie Robinson 
> <karlie_robinson at webpath.net <mailto:karlie_robinson at webpath.net>> wrote:
>
>     The article is quite old, but it seems like a neat idea for bringing
>     more of the Open Source ideals into the classroom.
>
>     http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/11/13/wikipedia_edges_out_term_paper.aspx
>
>      From the article
>     >
>     > Most professors forbid the use of Wikipedia in the classroom,
>     but the
>     > University of Washington-Bothell's Martha Groom requires it.
>     >
>     > Instead of ending the semester with the traditional term paper,
>     Groom
>     > asked her students to create an original Wikipedia entry or make a
>     > major edit on an existing page.
>     >
>
> ------------------------
>
> This is a great idea.
>
> It is definitely something that must be done
> as an exercise in an Open Source class.
>
>
>     Luis
>
>
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