via Michael Nielsen; pullquote: "I hit upon the idea of outsourcing my lecture to the students — crowdsourcing it, wikifying it, though they didn’t get to choose which part of the lesson they were to teach which would really be required for true wikification. I assigned each student one test and one problem using that test. They had 10 minutes to study their test and figure out their problem. Then they each presented the test with its demo problem."
- Bill Hooker
Bill - thanks this is a perfect example! We'll be trying something related in teaching "chemical information retrieval" this term using students to gather relevant content and discuss in a FF room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Jean-Claude Bradley
thanks for the mention! I'm excited to join in the discussions.
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