@srodlund and I met with two professors from POSSE (http://foss2serve.org/index.php/POSSE), an initiative that supports professional development for instructors interested in student participation in humanitarian free and open source software.
The next steps are for us to prepare some instructions around Wikimedia's New Developers guide and technical writing tasks that could be added on the POSSE's wiki and would then be used as a curriculum material by professors interested in teaching open source through projects.
For reference: http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Category:OpenMRS