SAS students help teach Econ in Africa!

So tonight while checking my students’ latest updates to our class wiki, “Welker’s Wikinomics”, I got a message from Antonio, an Econ professor from Africa. Here’s what he had to say:

Hi Jason,

I am Lecturer at the Economics Faculty in Maputo, Mozambique. I have recently come across your wiki and am really enjoying and learning a lot with it. I am creating my own wiki for my class, and your wiki provides a lot of insight. If you do not know Portuguese my wiki will not be of any use for you. In any case, I am the one who needs to learn with you. Thanks for the insights!

Best regards
Antonio

There’s globalization and education in the era of Web 2.0 at its best! International, teenage, Econ students living and going to school in Shanghai are helping African university professors and students learn economics. If you’re not convinced that the wiki’s making a difference in the world, have a look at this. Here’s a map showing the last 100 visitors at Welker’s Wikinomics Wiki:

That’s right, guys, your wiki work is being seen, read, studied, and learned from by students and teachers of economics on every continent! And that’s just the last 100 visitors! In its busiest month, our wiki has had over 4,000 visitors from all over the world! How amazing! Congratulations to all the SAS Econ students whose contributions to our class wiki have helped make the world of online economics education a little more bountiful! You truly are teaching the world economics!