Eduzendium

I'm not sure about the positioning of this; I think it should go after ""he's just adding rules that will turn potential contributors off.", but right now that segue's already occupied by the real names rule and Sarah Tuttle...
Also, i realize this prose has all the grace of a pig on Quaaludes. please polish it up.
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Dire predictions for Citizendium are easy to find - Nicholas Carr predicts it won't appeal to contributors, while Clay Shirky sees it mired in the identifying, credentialing and adjudicating of disputes between experts. (is this para. sufficiently accurate?)

One promising approach that could finesse both these hazards is Eduzendium, the brand-spanking-new brainchild of Purdue University professor Sorin Matei. Just announced last Saturday (Apr 21), Eduzendium is envisioned as partnering with professors to allow their graduate students to write Citizendium articles for academic credit. As Sanger notes,"This one is low-hanging fruit". Graduate seminars generate a tremendous amount of underutilized work; Matei observes that Eduzendium "offers [the students] the opportunity to take their work to another, more socially consequential level".

Dr. Matei will be academic coordinator for Eduzendium; he plans initially to test it out with classes at Purdue, then extend it to other universities.

He intends Eduzendium to maximize leverage and synergy: "We are working very hard on finding the best editorial policies and support mechanisms for making this into a win-win situation. We want students to learn, professors to utilize a new method of teaching, and Citizendium to add valuable information to its knowledgebase."

While cautioning that it's way too early to predict what form Eduzendium will take or how much it will contribute to Citizendium, he believes Eduzendium has great potential.
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(it'd be nice to have some quotes from other random profs on how well Eduzendium would fit into academia; I'll ask around, but if anyone else wants to ask or (if appropriately credentialed and random) weigh in...)