I can imagine a lot of ways Debatepedia could be used as a resource for higher level BE classes, especially for skills such as meetings, discussions, presentation Q & A, and negotiations. Whatever the class goals are, it’d be good to work on “polite disagreement” - debate classes can get contentious in my experience, and it’d be good to practice “how to keep your cool in English”!Debatepedia calls for user-generated content from its community:

As a wiki like Wikipedia and an open-source movement, Debatepedia’s socially important content is developed by editors like you - students, citizens, debaters, professors, experts, and thinkers. Here’s why you should join our community of editors…

Its mission:

[Debatepedia] improves your ability to think through the complicated issues and debates you care about, take a confident stand, and take action as a citizen. An important way to take action is by participating as an editor on the site, where you can create new debates, build and organize pro and con arguments, and present supporting evidence (quotes, studies, links) from your readings all so that you can better deliberate. Your efforts, in turn, will also improve the ability of a wide audience of citizens, leaders, and decision-makers to deliberate and draw reasoned conclusions. As such, we believe Debatepedia will help fix an apparent deficit of balanced reasoning and deliberation within the public and among leaders today.

I’ve re-read that last sentence a few times now, and each time I smile (which is probably a prelude to either laughing or crying).

Hat tip to Jeffrey Hill of The English Blog.