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'''Course model: contract validation for students of law and administration (Europe, ECTS)''' — a WikiDeal [[Market:Pedagogy|pedagogy]] course model. ''Proposed model, basis for discussion.''

''Adapted from the course and training model of [https://wikiedu.org Wiki Education] (Wiki Education Foundation, San Francisco, California), whose [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students student training modules] are published under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0] licence. This adaptation is published under the same '''CC BY-SA 4.0''' licence.''

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== Origin: the Wiki Education course model ==

[https://wikiedu.org Wiki Education] runs programs in which university students contribute to Wikipedia as coursework, guided by a '''course timeline''' with weekly milestones and a set of '''training modules''' (policies and rules, how to edit, evaluating sources, drafting in a sandbox, peer review, plagiarism and copyright), all tracked on a public '''Dashboard'''. All the training content is free-licensed (CC BY-SA 4.0), which allows anyone to adapt it: this page adapts that structure to the validation of contracts on WikiDeal.

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== The adapted course structure ==

The course would run over one term, following the same phased logic as the Wiki Education timeline:

# '''Orientation and training modules.''' Students learn the basics of WikiDeal: how the wiki works, the [[Policies/en/Universal-Code-of-Conduct|code of conduct]], how contract bases are structured, and the [[Gov/en/Portal:Meta/Internal-AI|AI transparency rule]]. Equivalent of Wiki Education's "Basics" modules.
# '''Evaluating existing contracts.''' Students learn to read and critically evaluate contract bases and clauses: coherence, clarity, fairness, legal soundness in their jurisdiction. Equivalent of the "Evaluating articles and sources" module.
# '''Supervised validation work.''' Each student (or group) takes one or several contract bases and documents a structured validation: problems found, improvements proposed, points requiring a professional lawyer. Work is drafted publicly on the wiki, the equivalent of sandbox drafting.
# '''Peer review.''' Students review each other's validation work, as in the Wiki Education peer review exercises.
# '''Final review and ECTS attribution.''' The supervising teacher evaluates the work; the institution attributes the '''ECTS credits''' defined in the [[Market:Pedagogy/Contract-Validation-by-Students|pedagogical contract]].

The workload is expressed in ECTS terms: 1 ECTS credit corresponds to about 25 to 30 hours of student work; a typical course of 3 ECTS would therefore represent about 75 to 90 hours (training, validation work, peer review included).

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== Credit systems in other regions (indicative equivalences) ==

The model is written for '''ECTS''' (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, used across the European Higher Education Area: 60 credits per full-time year). Institutions in other regions can adapt it to their own credit systems; indicative equivalences, to be verified with each institution:

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! Region
! Credit system
! Full-time year
! Indicative equivalence
|-
| Europe (EHEA)
| ECTS
| 60 credits
| Reference system for this model
|-
| United Kingdom
| CATS (Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme)
| 120 credits
| 2 CATS ≈ 1 ECTS
|-
| United States
| Semester credit hours
| ≈ 30 credit hours
| 1 US credit ≈ 2 ECTS
|-
| Canada
| Credit hours (varies by institution)
| ≈ 30 credits
| ≈ 1 credit ≈ 2 ECTS (verify per institution)
|-
| Australia / New Zealand
| Credit points + EFTSL (Equivalent Full-Time Student Load)
| 1.0 EFTSL (commonly 48 credit points)
| Verify per university
|-
| Japan
| University credits (1 credit = 45 hours of study)
| ≈ 31 credits
| 1 credit ≈ 2 ECTS (indicative)
|-
| Latin America
| CLAR (Crédito Latinoamericano de Referencia, Tuning América Latina)
| 60 credits
| ≈ 1:1 with ECTS
|-
| Southeast Asia
| ACTS (ASEAN Credit Transfer System)
| Aligned on ECTS logic
| ≈ 1:1 with ECTS (verify)
|-
| Asia-Pacific
| UCTS (UMAP Credit Transfer Scheme)
| 60 credits
| ≈ 1:1 with ECTS (verify)
|}

These equivalences are '''indicative only''': each pedagogical contract states the exact number of credits attributed, under the rules of the institution concerned.

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== Licence ==

This course model is published under '''[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0]''', in continuity with the Wiki Education training material it adapts. Anyone can reuse and adapt it, including for other disciplines than law and administration, under the same licence.

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== See also ==
* [[Market:Pedagogy|Pedagogy portal]]
* [[Market:Pedagogy/Contract-Validation-by-Students|Scenario: contract validation by students]]
* [[Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Validation-Endorsement|Validation & Endorsement]]