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:For more specific details about recruitment and specific mechanisms and utilities for collaboration please go to the dedicated [[CZ:Eduzendium Recruitment|Eduzendium Recruitment Page]]. | |||
: See [[CZ:Eduzendium operational|here]]for operational details on how to categorize your pages, how to add templates to the page, how to register and retrieve passwords, etc. | |||
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Philosophically, we believe that the individuals who struggle with the meaning of fundamental concepts on a daily basis make excellent authors and editors for entries on those concepts. Advanced foundational courses are an ideal site for recruiting such authors and editors because their primary goal is to redefine and communicate for each generation the meaning of the basic and essential issues of our knowledge world. Furthermore, the activity of these seminars is often directed at producing short and insightful papers about some basic concepts which might or might not be later transformed into more "formal" publications. We believe that opening up the ''Citizendium'' to collaborative work on specific topic to students and their professors offers them the opportunity to take their work to another, more socially consequential level, which enhances the educational process on the one hand, while helping the ''Citizendium'' to build its socially involved and expert friendly knowledge environment, on the other hand.--> | Philosophically, we believe that the individuals who struggle with the meaning of fundamental concepts on a daily basis make excellent authors and editors for entries on those concepts. Advanced foundational courses are an ideal site for recruiting such authors and editors because their primary goal is to redefine and communicate for each generation the meaning of the basic and essential issues of our knowledge world. Furthermore, the activity of these seminars is often directed at producing short and insightful papers about some basic concepts which might or might not be later transformed into more "formal" publications. We believe that opening up the ''Citizendium'' to collaborative work on specific topic to students and their professors offers them the opportunity to take their work to another, more socially consequential level, which enhances the educational process on the one hand, while helping the ''Citizendium'' to build its socially involved and expert friendly knowledge environment, on the other hand.--> | ||
We encourage faculty to use the ''Citizendium'' as a platform for their students to write original articles. There are few rules - all authors must abide by the key rules for all articles, most importantly that the content should not contain offensive or derogatory, and that they should not violate copyright law, including especially in the uploading of images. | |||
The students register under their real names as Citizendium authors, and must abide by the rules of Citizendium. | The students register under their real names as Citizendium authors, and must abide by the rules of Citizendium. | ||
Revision as of 07:37, 31 October 2011
Eduzendium[1] is a program in which the Citizendium partners with university programs throughout the world to create high-quality, English language entries for the Citizendium.
If you have registered with Citizendium, you can start a page for your Eduzendium course here. Just type the title of your course in this inputbox (it has to start with "CZ:", which we have filled in already), and a suite of course pages will be prepared automagically when you press the button and follow the instructions.
- For more specific details about recruitment and specific mechanisms and utilities for collaboration please go to the dedicated Eduzendium Recruitment Page.
- See herefor operational details on how to categorize your pages, how to add templates to the page, how to register and retrieve passwords, etc.
What does Eduzendium do?
The Citizendium invites university instructors to include the crafting of a Citizendium article as an assignment.
We encourage faculty to use the Citizendium as a platform for their students to write original articles. There are few rules - all authors must abide by the key rules for all articles, most importantly that the content should not contain offensive or derogatory, and that they should not violate copyright law, including especially in the uploading of images.
The students register under their real names as Citizendium authors, and must abide by the rules of Citizendium.
The collaborative process
The Eduzendium program is designed to be extremely flexible and adaptable.
The course leader must
- ask students to register as Citizendium authors
- Place a description of the set task on an Eduzendium course page.
- Name a number of articles to be reserved for students on that course
- Start those articles and place an Eduzendium template on the main page, closing the article for editing by anyone except those involved in the course
- Specify an 'end date' after which the article(s) may be opened for general editing
It will be up to the course leader to set whatever specific guidance for the students is appropriate for that particular course. (For example, they may set a word limit, or require inclusion of figures, or specify a particular article structure, or number of references.) The task may either be formative (an exercise in developing skills in team work, literature research and presentation) or summative (for formal assessment). The page history will provide a record of every student's individual contribution. The talk page may be used for discussion amongst students and for feedback from the instructors.
What are the educational benefits?
Writing a high-quality encyclopedia article about a specific topic requires, and trains, a specific sort of effort or discipline. Simply producing a suitably informative, but neutral, definition of a concept can require a great deal of thought. Crafting a jumble of facts into a coherent narrative, which the Citizendium requires, is a difficult, but rewarding and educational task. Furthermore, it practices a very useful scholarly skill to investigate and decide on what the most reliable bibliography items for an article are.
Some Citizendium articles that were started in Eduzendium
- University of Edinburgh; articles on the theme of Appetite and Obesity that were originally written by undergraduate students, working in groups of about 4 students.
Circadian rhythms and appetite: Daily variations in the regulation of food intake. [e]- Energy balance in pregnancy and lactation: Adaptations in the control of food intake and energy expenditure in different reproductive states. [e]
- Evolution of appetite regulating systems: Comparisons of the mechanisms regulating food intake and energy expenditure between species. [e]
- Glucostatic theory of appetite control: The theory that changes in blood glucose concentrations or arteriovenous glucose differences are detected by glucoreceptors that affect energy intake. [e]
- Melanocortins and appetite: The regulation of food intake through neuropeptides related to adrenocorticotropic hormone. [e]
Stress and appetite: The interactions between the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the regulation of food intake. [e]
Food reward: The brain mechanisms involved in reinforcing feeding behaviour. [e]- Gut-brain signalling: The interaction between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain. [e]
- Diabesity: A term referring to the intricate relationship between type 2 diabetes and obesity. [e]
- Genetics of obesity: The evidence for a genetic component to obesity in humans. [e]
- Bariatric surgery: The surgical removal of body fat. [e]
- Drug treatments for obesity: Treatments of obesity that are based on drugs. [e]
- Exercise and body weight: Correlation between physical activity and the body mass index. [e]
- Health consequences of obesity: Long-term effects of obesity on health. [e]
Other examples
- Music perception: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in people perceiving rhythms, melodies, harmonies and other musical features. [e]
- Speech Recognition: The ability to recognize and understand human speech, especially when done by computers. [e]
- Mashup: A data visualization created by combining data with multiple computer applications. [e]
See also
- A list of courses already integrated in Citizendium
- Eduzendium Testimonials — Eduzendium instructors discuss their experiences here.
References
- ↑ Note that eduzendium.org redirects to this page!