Interesting PR spin... "...the new course called Wiki Scholar, designed by psychology professor Steve Joordens, who believes that by learning to write and rewr

Interesting PR spin... "...the new course called Wiki Scholar, designed by psychology professor Steve Joordens, who believes that by learning to write and rewrite research until it makes sense to the wider Wiki world, students are forced to grasp ideas more deeply — and produce research that is useful..." http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2012/07/23/wikipedia_course_gets_students_research_online.html http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2012/07/23/wiki... "Cognitive psychologist Steve Joordens, from the University of Toronto Scarborough in Canada, believes the APSWI provides students with effective practice for solving real-world problems. 'You can do it in any class,' he said. 'It’s really a good thing to enhance deep learning skills and another tool we can use to keep our students in the mental gym.'" http://dev.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2012/july-august-12/papers-with-a-purpose.html http://dev.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/o... "Using Wikipedia in a Mega Classroom: A 1,700 Student Case Study Steve Joordens, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada Students in our Introductory Psychology mega-class could earn bonus marks by signing up to the APS Wikipedia Initiative and making minor edits to two psychology-related Wikipedia entries. We describe our implementation of such a large scale assignment and report data depicting the rate of participation, the quality of the edits, and the larger impact on both students and Wikipedia Psychology content. We also highlight some of the difficulties we initially encountered and our attempts to minimize them in efforts to hone the 'many small edits' approach to answering the APS Wikipedia Initiative." http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/2012-wikipedia-symposium http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/members/2012-w...