Massive open online course using Wikipedia

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

• 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

• Open Access Wikipedia Challenge, P2P University
• Wikipedia: Aim for Featured Article, P2P University
• Contributing to Wikimedia Commons, P2P University

Open source platforms

P2PU

https://p2pu.org/

edX

(not actually open source yet, but expected to be)

OpenMOOC

http://openmooc.org/

Closed source platforms

Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/

• 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

See also

• Grants:IEG/Wikipedia Massive Open Online Courses
• Virtual Learning Environment (UK Chapter)

External links

• 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)