Hi Collab members!
Just a quick note to let you know that I got my proposal accepted and will
be in London for the entire OER17 conference in April to promote the
Education program with our OER-friends.
Also, the program committee announced their second keynote speaker today;
Lucy Compton-Ried CE of Wikimedia UK
https://oer17.oerconf.org/news/announcing-our-second-confirmed-keynote-lucy…
Placing the WEP in the broader OER-landscape I think will spark some
interesting conversations about how to advance free knowledge in Education.
Let me know if you're going or if you know people attending the conference
who'd like to meet up to talk about it.
Thanks sharing Collab activities in 2016 - looking forward to our next
steps in 2017.
All the best,
Sara
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*Sara Mörtsell*
Sara Mörtsell | Education Manager, Wikimedia Sverige
<http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
sara.mortsell(a)wikimedia.se | +4673-383 26 70
*Stöd fri kunskap genom att bli medlem <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se/>! *
Friendly reminder: we're starting the Collab meeting in 53 minutes!
Please join us at: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/
education-colla?hceid=dm1hc3JvdXJAd2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZw
.jadq3t6e2g04gs5403cktmh7js&authuser=0
See you!
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Hello Education & Research enthusiasts,
Happy to share some good news with you -- an academic article I wrote about
implementing Wikipedia in higher education has been accepted to the journal
"Education and Information Technologies" (of Springer Nature publishing
house) and finally published online today!
The article is called "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning: A
new course model in higher education" and is attached below in a PDF
form. Unfortunately,
I did not have 3000$ to publish it via their "Open Access" option, but if your
academic institution is subscribed to Springer, it is also available via
this link - http://rdcu.be/nLxs
<http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSNV04Bi9eNZdn8IE1uoBDt…>
.
Really hope this will inspire other institutions, educators and researchers
to further explore such endeavors.
Cheers,
Shani.
Dear Collab members,
As you know, we're engaged in having a meaningful conversation on what the
Collab membership means, and how the Collab should evolve to best serve the
needs of the Wikimedia movement, and more specifically its Education
Programs.
In order to understand what our perceptions are regarding the Collab, we've
opened the discussion on wiki, and have got answers from a couple of the
Collab members. As you can imagine, this is far from a significant sample,
and therefore we request once again that your share your thoughts (at the
very least in the form of supporting other members' opinions).
The place for that conversation is here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Education/Wikipedia_Education_Coll…
This on-wiki conversation will take the place in lieu of the December
online meeting.
The contributions so far seem to be focusing on "open membership", which is
of course very Wikipedian. :) At the same time, it would seem that we could
deepen the conversation around what "being an active member" means. Do you
have ideas for criteria that we could use (as self-assessment or to have
open discussions about "being active")?
By January, we would like to summarize the conversation and reach a
conclusion on the new definition/criteria for membership. This conversation
is not exclusive to the Collab members, as we are inviting Affiliates and
people that are applying to become members of the Collab to also share
their views (and this is a wiki!).
I hope December will be a great month for everyone!
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education