Open Education at CUNY
A group devoted to making education open, accessible, and public through the use of open-source tools and non-proprietary software platforms.
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Diana C. Silverman, Ph.D. started the forum topic TOMORROW Language Conference: indigenous music, NY poetry, slave narrative, Indian theater in the group
Open Education at CUNY 4 weeks, 1 day agoPlease share with your department a cordial invitation to The International Mother Language Day Conference at LaGuardia Community College, TOMORROW,
on Wednesday, April 18th,
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Mikhail Gershovich started the forum topic Gardner Campbell on Digital Citizenship, Baruch College, 3/6 in the group
Open Education at CUNY 2 months, 2 weeks agoApologies for cross posting. Please see below. Gardner is a brilliant thinker and a fantastic speaker. Not to be missed though space is limited.
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mandiberg replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 2 weeks agoIf you do a Wikipedia assignment, I encourage you to reach out to one of the education program folks to get a Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors to work with your class. It helps to have someone who can guide you in […]
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Matthew K. Gold replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoMichael — just wanted to chime in belatedly to agree with everyone else: congrats on this coverage of your work and thank you for setting out a great example for others to follow. I’m looking forward to using a […]
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mandiberg replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoAlso useful, user contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_contributions
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Bob Kosovsky replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoWikipedia always retains the history of who did what. By comparing the contents of the ”history” tab, you can see each contributor’s contributions.
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Lee Hachadoorian replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoMichael,
How did you did assessment? I tried a Wikipedia assignment once a few years ago, and part of the problem I ran into was tracking what the students had done, considering I had them editing and expanding […]
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Christopher Stein replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoThat sounds like a good plan, especially building off of work they did before and pushing collaboration. There are already enough other pressures in academia towards solitary work.
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mandiberg replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoThanks Chris.
In the Core 2 version i’m going to have them work in groups and take the blog posts from the Core 1 readings, and ask them to extract the factual summary from the opinion and provocations, and […]
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Christopher Stein replied to the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis looks like some great work by you and your students. I’m interested to see how it works out in Core 2 as well; keep us posted.
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mandiberg started the forum topic Writing Wikipedia as coursework in the group
Open Education at CUNY 3 months, 3 weeks agoApologies for the cross-posting!
I gave an interesting assignment last semester that asked students to complete their research paper as an article on Wikipedia. My course was recently profiled on the Wikimedia […]
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Phoebe Schimpf posted on the forum topic Google to Launch Open Source LMS in the group
Open Education at CUNY: 6 months, 3 weeks agoInteresting posts – will be fascinating to see how it plays out!
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Joseph Ugoretz posted on the forum topic Google to Launch Open Source LMS in the group
Open Education at CUNY: 6 months, 3 weeks agoTImely! I just wrote a blog post on OpenClass! http://prestidigitation.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/10/27/early-thoughts-on-pearsons-openclass/
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