Market:Pedagogy/Course-Model
Course model: contract validation for students of law and administration (Europe, ECTS) — a WikiDeal pedagogy course model. Proposed model, basis for discussion.
Adapted from the course and training model of Wiki Education (Wiki Education Foundation, San Francisco, California), whose student training modules are published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. This adaptation is published under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Origin: the Wiki Education course model
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.
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 code of conduct, how contract bases are structured, and the 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 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).
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:
| 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.
Licence
This course model is published under 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.