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How many of the following terms can you identify?

  • Iowa Electronic Markets
  • Lostpedia
  • FOSS
  • Ushahidi

A. None

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

E. All

"Groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table."

--James Surowiecki

Principles of Crowdsourcing

"Decentralization's great weakness is that there's no guarantee that valuable information which is uncovered in one part of the system will find its way through the rest of the system."

--James Surowiecki

Which of the following is most crucial to effective teaching with clickers?

A. Students responding to questions independently

B. Bar charts that aggregate results

C. Questions that allow open-ended discussion

D. Letting go of the coverage model

E. Creating safe environments for students to share

F. Uncovering diverse student perspectives

Leveraging Diversity

Two Labs, One Problem

(Kevin Dunbar, U. Maryland)

The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching

http://is.gd/b9VjRn

Derek Bruff

derekbruff.com

@derekbruff

"Colourful Army," maistora, Flickr (CC)

An Experiment

Independence

Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)

"10.25.10 298/365," nineminutes, Flickr (CC)

"DSC_7102," Nate Shepard, Flickr (CC)

Examples of Crowdsourcing

Diversity

Decentralization

Wikis

Prediction Markets

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/

7,222

Articles

http://www.lostpedia.com

http://geographyoflost.tumblr.com/

"Colourful Army," maistora, Flickr (CC)

"Barracudas," Daniel Vaulot, Flickr (CC)

Iowa Electronic Markets

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/

Peer Review

Aggregation

Open-Ended Questions

Risk-Friendly Environments

Backchannel

Applications to Teaching

"Project 365 #169," comedy_nose, Flickr (CC)

"RGB," Rafael Nogueira, Flickr (CC)

"Grammar Police," Eli Reusch, Flickr (CC)

Twitter + Small-Group Discussion

Google Moderator + Q&A

Long Tails

"The Twitter Experiment"

"Little Shredder," clappstar, Flickr (CC)

Monica Rankin, History, UT-Dallas

"Choices," Derek Bruff, Flickr (CC)

"Scrabble's Long Tail," Derek Bruff, Flickr (CC)

Prediction Markets

Collaborative Writing

"Arguments," el patojo, Flickr (CC)

"Binoculars," Vestman, Flickr (CC)

http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/

Prezi Meeting

Wikis

"Going in, everyone had their own conceptions of the characters’ personalities and the themes they wanted to discuss, and I think we managed to reconcile these different thoughts into a unified whole."

Skidmore College Greek Tragedy Wiki

https://academics.skidmore.edu/wikis/Greek_Tragedy/

Derek's Story: http://is.gd/KseLlC

http://markets.nitle.org/

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