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Wikipedia = Education?

What do "Economic Growth", "Human Capital" and "Tertiary Education" have in common?

Their Wikipedia articles are read > 200k last year 

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... and these concepts matter for economists

Education matters,

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but education is not just education.

Education 2.0

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Education is re-defined by tech companies

Datafied Education

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Learning is not a one-way street, anymore

"Feedback went almost exclusively in one direction: from the teachers and schools to kids and their parents"

"Big data is changing this [...]

we're datafying the learning process"

 * Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier (2014) - Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education, Chapter 2 - Change

Datafied Education is great,

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but the data are kept in silos!

However, the biggest data silo

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is open source!

Duolingo (15mn)

Coursera (17mn)

Wikipedia (16 bn)

  * In brackets: average page views per month 2017 (trafficestimate.com / Wikimedia Traffic Analysis)

Wikipedia traffic,

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a measure of learning?

Wikipedia traffic

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and PISA

Wikipedia edits

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can be traced for single knowledge domains

Edits in "Computer Science"

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on a global scale

Edits in "Computer Science"

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on a national scale

Edits in "Computer Science"

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on a local scale

Outlook

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German Wikipedia alone contains > 35k "Computer Science" related articles

Outlook

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Female editors