Crowd Research: Open and Scalable University Laboratories
summary
A method for running open university-scale labs that recruits ~1,500 contributors from 62+ countries and runs a weekly cycle of open contribution, synchronous collaboration, and peer assessment to iterate on projects. Contributions feed a decentralized credit via 100-point allocations and PageRank to produce collective author order. Outcomes include a live Doemo crowdsourcing platform with 100,000 QA pairs, a Wisdom-of-Crowds dataset of 1,000 questions and ~500,000 responses, and peer-reviewed papers (Boomerang, Crowd Guilds); the process materially helps admissions and produces usable systems.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to Crowd Research
- 2:10Problem of research access
- 3:37Challenges in open-ended research
- 5:02Four-stage coordination process
- 8:43Decentralized credit system
- 11:14Impact and upward mobility
- 13:27Diversity in authorship
- 15:39PageRank for fair credit
- 17:55Future of decentralized research
- 18:37Q&A begins
- 18:57Resistance from traditional sectors
- 20:24Comparison with MOOCs model
- 21:50Learning research skills
- 22:11Messiness and disappointments
- 23:15Credit system evolution
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