Talk:Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia

This is a good initial effort in the area of designing a digital toolkit for teacher training, and can be eventually scaled up to include teachers at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. However, instead of only exposing the teachers to OER, we could think of linking digital open access to questions of evaluation. This is a very important component of what a teacher does, and often teachers feel that adding digital content will increase their workload. Worse still, it's common for teachers at all levels to blame Wikipedia for making available digital content for students to plagiarise. I've experimented with showing postgraduate teachers how to use Wikipedia in the classroom, and one way of convincing them it's a useful platform is to show how it can be used for student evaluation. The evaluation can be in terms of formative assessment as a student goes through a particular course, and also summative assessment which is done at the end of a course. What's interesting about using the Wikipedia platform for assessment is that qualitative contributions can also be measured quantitatively (of course, care has to be taken not to reduce the former to the latter!). So let's take this course development forward by looking at the entire pedagogic process - from teachers accessing as well as creating new digital resources to re-designing course content to re-designing evaluation frameworks.Tniranjana (discuss • contribs) 03:03, 4 December 2014 (UTC)