Just a reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday. On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 4:06 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello all, > > The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be held Wednesday, December 15 > at 17:30 UTC (9:30 PT / 12:30 ET / 18:30 CET). > > You can view the livestream here: https://youtu.be/HKODaHgmQWw > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/HKODaHgmQWw&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1639318315124385&usg=AOvVaw3golHXRGc6dP0iV3H1Br4l> > > The Showcase will feature the following talks: > > *Latin American Youth and their Information Ecosystem: Finding, > Evaluation, Creating, and Sharing Content Online* > The increased importance the Internet plays as a core source of > information in youth's lives, now underscored by the pandemic, gives new > urgency to the need to better understand young people’s information habits > and attitudes. Answers to questions like where young people go to look for > information, what information they decide to trust and how they share the > information they find, hold important implications for the knowledge they > obtain, the beliefs they form and the actions they take in areas ranging > from personal health, professional employment or their educational training. > > In this research showcase, we will be summarizing insights from focus > group interviews in Latin America that offer a window into the experiences > of young people themselves. Taken together, these perspectives might help > us to develop a more comprehensive understanding of how young people in > Latin America use the Internet in general and interact with information > from online sources in particular. > > > Speakers: Lionel Brossi and Ana María Castillo. Artificial Intelligence > and Society Hub at University of Chile. > > -- > > Characterizing the Online Learning Landscape: What and How People Learn > Online > > Hundreds of millions of people learn something new online every day. > Simultaneously, the study of online education has blossomed with new > systems, experiments, and observations creating and exploring previously > undiscovered online learning environments. In this talk I will discuss our > study, in which we endeavor to characterize this entire landscape of online > learning experiences using a national survey of 2260 US adults who are > balanced to match the demographics of the U.S. We examine the online > learning resources that they consult, and we analyze the subjects that they > pursue using those resources. Furthermore, we compare both formal and > informal online learning experiences on a larger scale than has ever been > done before, to our knowledge, to better understand which subjects people > are seeking for intensive study. We find that there is a core set of online > learning experiences that are central to other experiences and these are > shared among the majority of people who learn online. > > > Speaker: Sean Kross, University of California San Diego > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > -- > Janna Layton (she/her) > Administrative Associate - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Associate - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
