"Wikipedia in the Classroom: Changing the Way
Teachers and Students Use Wikipedia"
http://www.educause.edu/live111
1-2pm U.S. Eastern Time, Wednesday, January 5. No
charge, but registration required. Archived for
future (re)viewing.
*** Speakers:
Yonatan Moskowitz
Wikimedia Campus Ambassador, Georgetown University
Annie Lin
Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
*** Summary:
Very few educators have thus far used Wikipedia
as a teaching tool in their classrooms, but this
is beginning to change due to the Wikipedia
Public Policy Initiative. The Wikimedia
Foundation launched the Wikipedia Public Policy
Initiative in fall 2010 in order to find new ways
to incorporate Wikipedia into higher education
environments. In the fall 2010 semester, 13
classes from 10 universities participated by
developing various assignments that incorporated
Wikipedia editing as a main component, with many
more signing up for the second iteration in
spring 2011.
In these classes, professors and trained
ambassadors worked together to develop
assignments that achieved the learning goals of
the professor while contributing to the
development of new content on the free
encyclopedia. Though the first classes to receive
ambassadors focus on developing mainly public
policyoriented pages, one of the program's end
goals is to develop a model that can be expanded
to other disciplines.
In this session, staff from the Wikimedia
foundation and a Campus Ambassador will discuss
the program in general, some examples of how
Wikipedia is being used in the classroom, where
the program is going, and how professionals in
higher education technology can bring some of the
advantages of this program to their institutions.
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