SlideWiki is a platform for crowdsourcing the creation of educational content like presentations, slides, diagrams and assessments. Users can collaboratively author content using tools like HTML and LaTeX. Content is structured hierarchically and versioned. SlideWiki aims to empower large communities of educators to share and reuse sophisticated educational material. It is maintained by the AKSW research group at the University of Leipzig.

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Knowledge using Presentations
http://slidewiki.aksw.org
Ali Khalili

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Introduction
• SlideWiki is a platform created as a proof of concept for CrowdLearn
concept.
▫ The CrowdLearn concept exploits the wisdom, creativity and productivity of the
crowd for the creation of rich, deep-semantically structured E-Learning content.
With SlideWiki users can create and collaborate on educational
slides, diagrams, assessments and arrange slides in presentations. Presentations
can be organized hierarchically, so as to structure them reasonably according to
their content.
• SlideWiki empowers extremly large communities of
instructors, teachers, lecturers, academics to create, share and re-use
sophisticated educational content in a truly collaborative way. In addition to
importing PowerPoint presentations, it supports authoring of interactive
online slides using HTML and LateX. Slides and their containers (called
Deck), are versioned thereby enabling change tracking. Users can create
their own themes on top of existing themes or re-use other's themes.
• SlideWiki is developed and maintained by AKSW research group at
University of Leipzig.

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Motivation
• How can we collaboratively write texts?
• How can we collaboratively create the largest multi-lingual
encyclopedia?
• How can we create a crowdsourced map of the world?
• How can we collaboratively create rich educational
content???

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SlideWiki for Educators, Lecturers and
Teachers
• significantly increase your user base by making your content
accessible to a world-wide audience
• get your high-quality e-learning content translated into many
different languages
• engage your students in contributing to and discussing your slides
• easily create (self-)assessment test for your students
• involve peer-educators in improving and maintaining the quality
and attractiveness of your e-learning content
• increase your reputation in the community, by sharing your quality
e-learning content

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SlideWiki for Students
• view rich-learning content right in your browser
• discuss particular content (e.g. a slide or
question) with other students and instructors
• contribute additional content, improvements
and feedback
• access your knowledge using the questionaires
attached to presentations

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SlideWiki for Schools and Universities
• make your e-learning content easily accessible
(each presentation and slide has its own URL)
• leverage the wisdom of your educator
crowd, which can collaborate efficently in
creating rich educational content
• make the e-learning content produced in your
organizaation really re-usable and re-mixable
• increase the reputation of your school by sharing
your quality e-learning content

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SlideWiki for Companies
• make the knowledge available in your company
easily accesible to everyone (in your company)
• in addition to the SlideWiki portal we offer
companies to install and run a SlideWiki
instance inside their company with access
controll

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SlideWiki for Humanity
• Education is one of the main factors for societal progress
(in the Human Development Index, for
example, education) is weighted one third)
• However, despite huge investments into e-learning the
potential of the Internet and crowd-sourcing techniques
for e-learning is still not sufficiently explored
• With SlideWiki we aim to dramatically improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of the collaborative creation
of rich learning material for online and offline use
• With its semi-automatic translation and liberal licensing
SlideWiki aims to make educational content dramatically
more accessible to learners in developed and developing
countries

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Try SlideWiki…
http://slidewiki.aksw.org