User:Uttsinghuajoint2014/Course Page/Course description

Summary
This course page reflects a teaching collaboration between two courses taught by Prof. Ling Cen at the University of Toronto and Prof. Sean Xin Xu at Tsinghua University. In both courses, students are asked to find and update useful information for the assigned public U.S. companies on Wikipedia corporate pages. This teaching project mainly aims to train students to become responsible and skillful information collectors and suppliers by using online social media platforms.

In this project, students are advised to follow Wikipedia’s instructions (specifically, be very careful about the NPOV policy) when modifying and creating information for companies and each add a talk page to disclose this educational initiative. Further, we strictly require that the information students add must be 1) verifiable, i.e., the information sources must be credible and tractable; 2) non-trivial and non-redundant, i.e., the information added is related to an important aspect of firm operation that has not been addressed in the existing page; and 3) organized, i.e., the information added is not a “copy-and-paste” from other sources and should be expressed in proper English.

This teaching collaboration is for educational purpose only. It does not represent any commercial interest.

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