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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
Two Labs, One Problem
(Kevin Dunbar, U. Maryland)
The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching
http://is.gd/b9VjRn
"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://www.lostpedia.com
"Colourful Army," maistora, Flickr (CC)
"Barracudas," Daniel Vaulot, Flickr (CC)
Iowa Electronic Markets
http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/
Peer Review
Applications to Teaching
"Grammar Police," Eli Reusch, Flickr (CC)
Long Tails
"Scrabble's Long Tail," Derek Bruff, 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/