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Eduzendium is a program in which Citizendium partners with university programs or professors/instructors to create high-quality, English language entries for Citizendium.

If you have registered with Citizendium, you can start a page for your Eduzendium course here.

About Eduzendium

We encourage university faculty to use Eduzendium as a platform for their students to write original articles as a course assignment. Eduzendium has been designed to be extremely flexible and adaptable. For the duration of an instructor's Eduzendium course, other CZ authors are asked to respect the work space as off limits for general editing. This can create for your students a safe atmosphere where they can learn the mediawiki engine, the mechanics of article creation, and the joy of wiki-editing. Additionally, the CZ community is very friendly and helpful and always available (when we are here) to answer questions or offer advice when citizens post on our CZ:Talk Pages.

Citizendium's Eduzendium Project does not have any grade-space; and given the confidentiality of the instructor-student assessment relationship, instructors are urged to keep all assessment data, including any assessment-related comments, private by not posting such comments on Citizendium. Remember, Citizendium is a public space.

Getting Started

Instructors

Students

In order for students to participate in CZ's Eduzendium project, they must

  1. register as Citizendium authors. Registration requires that students abide by the Citizendium charter and community practices as authors;
  2. article content should not be offensive or derogatory, nor violate copyright law, including especially the use of any images;

When you are ready to start an Eduzendium course project, you can set up some of the pages [automagically here].

  1. place a description of the set task on an Eduzendium course page.
  2. Name a number of articles to be reserved for students on that course
  3. 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
  4. Specify an 'end date' after which the article(s) may be opened for general editing

The course instructor may 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.

Some Citizendium articles 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.

Other examples:

  • Developing Article Music perception: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in people perceiving rhythms, melodies, harmonies and other musical features. [e]
  • Developed Article Speech Recognition: The ability to recognize and understand human speech, especially when done by computers. [e]
  • Developed Article Mashup: A data visualization created by combining data with multiple computer applications. [e]

See also


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