What about using Wikis & Wikipedia for student term papers?
A good idea discussed in Scholarship2.0 is a report on "Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper" by Andreas Brockhau and Martha Groome from the University of Washington, Bothel - Why not have students add to Wikipedia pages on a specific topic for a term paper or have them make a major revision to a needy page already in Wikipedia?
Blogging's instant publication capability opened up the audience for student writing from just the Instructor to anyone on the Internet. Now having students create pages for their term papers in Wikipedia provides the perfect match for "peer review", publishing student's work, and provides the opportunity for students to add a major contribution on the global scale.
This assignment will turn the ordinary student term paper into an exciting project to be viewed by many others rather than just the instructor and the student's backpack.
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