Talk:Mika/Temp/WikiFCD/Course

This page is for planning a course on how to contribute to and use data from WikiFCD.

Schedule

• JHSPH has 4 terms (7 weeks each; 39-40 instruction days) + 1 summer term (8 weeks) and 1 winter intersession term (2 weeks):

Summer Term: Wednesday, July 1 - Wednesday, August 26 (39 class days)

1st Term: Monday, August 31 - Monday, October 26 (40 class days)

2nd Term: Tuesday, October 27 - Wednesday, December 23 (39 class days)

Winter Intersession: Monday, January 4 - Friday, January 15

3rd Term: Monday, January 25 - Friday, March 19 (39 class days)

4th Term: Monday, March 29 - Friday, May 21 (40 class days)

• If we can teach in the 1st and/or 2nd term, that would be nice for the grant application to be submitted in November.
• It seems it's about 1 hour instruction time per credit. Students register 16 credits per semester (2 terms).
• Aim for meet once a week for 2 hours = 2 credits?

Course Aims

1. To learn about issues with FCDs in global nutrition research
2. To learn about peer production
3. To learn about Wikidata and Wikibase
4. To learn how to contribute to WikiFCD
5. To learn how to use data from WikiFCD

Structure of the course

• Lecture
• Lab
• Individual projects

Course schedule

1st term: Aim 1 through 4

Week	Aim	Content	Assignment	Assignment Due date
Week 1	Aim 1/2/3
Week 2	Aim 3
Week 3	Aim 4
Week 4	Aim 4
Week 5	Aim 4
Week 6	Aim 4
Week 7	Aim 4
Week 8	Presentation

2nd Term: Aim 5

• Students will select their own research questions and try to answer them analyzing data from WikiFCD.
• Skills: SPARQL
• Optional skills: statistical software

Week	Aim	Content	Assignment	Assignment Due date
Week 1	Aim 5
Week 2	Aim 5
Week 3	Aim 5
Week 4	individual project consultation
Week 5	Aim 4
Week 6	Aim 5
Week 7	individual project consultation
Week 8	Presentation