Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation
that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has
talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher
education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our
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Why student learning matters, too
Jami Mathewson, the program manager for the United States and Canada versions of the
Wikipedia Education Program, authored an op-ed post for the Wikimedia blog about why
student learning matters. In Jami's post, she argues that the benefits of doing
Wikipedia assignments are more than just improving Wikipedia articles. Students gain
real-world skills they would not achieve through a more traditional assignment. Read
Jami's op-ed.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
Next term kicks off in Arab World
Also on the Wikimedia blog, Tighe Flanagan, the program manager for the Arab World version
of the Wikipedia Education Program, writes about the plans for the next term. Tighe
provides a report on the recent Arab World meeting and Jordan celebration conference in
Amman, Jordan, as well as talking about the momentum for the program, which is carrying
the efforts forward this term in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Learn more about the
Arab World program by reading Tighe's post.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
Students successfully complete online training
One year ago, students in the United States and Canada program started using a new
resource: an online training designed to teach them the basics of contributing to
Wikipedia. After two terms of listening to student feedback and making minor adjustments
to the training content, the training has taken off. Already, more than 300 students have
successfully completed the online training this term, and more and more professors are
assigning their students the training as part of their coursework. See the training.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
WikiSkills program helps teachers in Sweden
One facet of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme is called WikiSkills,
and Wikimedia Sverige has been running a WikiSkills program to instruct teachers on using
collaborative tools like wikis in their teaching. Sten Sundin, a teacher at Dalarna
University, says he learned about discussion pages and wikimarkup from attending the
WikiSkills classes, and he looks forward to incorporating Wikimedia project contributions
in his sound and music production classes. Read more about the program.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
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