International Collaborative Student Project 2010

In 2010 we plan to run a student project in Physiopedia that will involve international collaboration between undergraduate students from different nations.  Below are some of the first thoughts for developing this project:

Phase One - Developing the project

• A page for the project will be created in Physiopedia (this page!!)
• The related 'Talk' page will be used to communicate ideas for the development of the project and to express an interest in being involved in the project.

Phase Two - Participant selection

• Participants will be undergraduate students from an accreditred physiotherapy or physical therapy programme.
• Students will have a tutor to integrate the project into the students educational programme.
• A maximum of 3 nations will be involved.
• Each nation will be from a different continient.

Phase Three - Creating pages

• The project will run synchronously between nations.
• Students will be divided into appropriately sized groups (we are aiming for around 10 groups).
• Each group will contain equall numbers of students from each nation (as far as possible).
• Groups will be tasked to create pages in Physiopedia.
• Participants in each group will communicate through the 'Talk' page of the page that they are creating.
• They will be given a specific time within which to complete their page.

Phase Four - Peer review

• On completion of phase three participants wil be asked to peer review each others work.
• They will each be asked to identify their top three pages.
• The three pages with the highest votes will be highlighted on the Physiopedia home page.

Phase Five - Feedback

• Each participant will be asked to provide feedback.
• Feedback will be gathered by questionnaire and open questioning

Phase Six - Dissemination of results

• With Rachael Lowe (the project lead), the tutors involved in the project will write a report for publication and presentation.