Peer Production Howison
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| Course | Peer Production (Open Source Software, Wikipedia, & Beyond) |
|---|---|
| Institution | U. T. Austin |
| Instructor(s) | James Howison |
| Term | |
| Course Overview | This course explores “peer production” which is a name for the open collaborations that produce things like open source software and Wikipedia |
| Course Length | {{{courselength}}} |
| Student Characteristics | |
| Prerequisites | Basic knowledge of software development skills |
| Infrastructure |
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Conceptually distinguish peer production from other organizational forms or phenomena, such as corporations, crowdsourcing, open access publishing, and communities of practice.
- Reason about how, why, and when peer production works (and when it does not!)
- Engage critically with published research and popular discourse about peer production
Practically students will be able to:
- Install and use git to manage versions in their own work
- Participate in github hosted peer production (making and receiving pull requests)
- Create and publish documents in markdown and wikitext format
- Ask technical questions that people want to answer
- Participate in a peer production project of their choice
