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Revision as of 05:58, 31 August 2009

What is Rhea?

Rhea is an education related wiki.

www.purdue.edu/rhea

  • Serves the entire Purdue Community.
  • Anybody with a Purdue career account can contribute content.
  • Anybody in the world can view content.
  • Enables students to "teach each other the material they learn".
  • Helps connect curriculum material together and with "real world".

Development began in the spring of 2007.

  • Experiment #1:

Mimi's Kiwi for ECE301,

developed by Katie Bouman, Dennis Snell et al.,

logo designed by William Ehlhardt.

  • Experiment #2:
Purdue-wide Kiwi,

developed by Dennis Snell, Stephen Rudolpf, Deen King-Smith et al.

  • Rhea website launched August 2008.
Logo designed by ECE student Ben Horst,

Called after a flightless bird of the ratite family (cousin of kiwi)

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