Cross posting the Research Newsletter to the Education list since the focus
this month is education!
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
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From: <masssly(a)ymail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:51 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] The January 2017 issue of the Wikimedia Research
Newsletter is out
To: Wikimedia Research Mailing List <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The January 2017 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/28/research-newsletter-january-2017/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2017/January
This edition is a special issue collecting recent research about the topic
of Wikipedia in education.
In this issue:
1 "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning: A new course model in
higher education"
2 Faculty perception of Wikipedia improves over five-year term
3 Students report 95% of their interactions with other Wikipedians as
positive – even when they are getting reverted
4 Briefly
4.1 What we know from research about why Wikipedia is still struggling to
get accepted in academia, and about the benefits of teaching with Wikipedia
4.2 "Contributing to Wikipedia as an assignment for undergraduate students"
4.3 How to motivate students and others to contribute to Wikibooks
4.4 K-12 teachers perceive Wikipedia as easy to use but unreliable
4.5 Conferences and events
*** 17 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
PS: As always, remember that you can also follow research news via our
Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/Wikiresearch. The feed is celebrating
its 5th anniversary currently, having featured around 3000 research updates
per day since 2012, or 1.6 per day on average. We recently made a Facebook
version available, too:
https://www.facebook.com/WikiResearch/
<http://www.facebook.com/WikiResearch/>
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