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This is a cool idea: collaborate with your classmates to build the best class notes possible. I would think that the professors would also like this: they want people to have good lecture notes, after all, and by reviewing the collaborative notes the professor can see what the class understands and what needs further explanation. Great idea.
UPDATE: From a comment on the original post, there’s also this.
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Jason Drohn said,
28 September 2006 at 2:50 pm
This is an interesting program. I am trying to think of some of the implications, but it is very cool nonetheless.
LeisureGuy said,
28 September 2006 at 2:56 pm
One thing that occurred to me is akin to the tragedy of the commons—what happens when all share so that none feel responsible (thus overfishing, etc.). In this instance, each person might think, “Why should I go to class, when I can go to the wiki and get a nicely coherent set of notes?” with the result that the quality of the collaboration goes south quickly. Indeed, even if the students agree on a designated note-taker, one student who will be responsible for taking good notes and keeping the wiki up to date, the quality will be less because the quality is optimized through collaboration, which results in the summing of the class’s insights: the synergy of the whole becoming better than what any single contributor could do. But this requires an almost preternatural sense of responsibility—much as though each fisherman were to think, “I mustn’t take too many fish, otherwise, with all of us fishing, the stock will become overfished.”