Dear all,
I have a professor in Myanmar who is interested in being mentored. Her name
is Yee Mon, and the details of her course are below. If anyone feels they
are able to help her out, please ping me :)
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In December, I will start a semester long ( 48 hours lecture time in 4
months ) new academic writing course for fourth year students in my
University. There will be about 70 students in that Course.
I' ll design my Course in a new approach, new teaching methods and new
assessment types. First I must consider the expected learning outcomes.
Then I would also like to get some suggestions from ELT professionals from
other Universities whether they apply Wikipedia or not. I am happy to learn
different approaches from others.
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*Nichole Saad*
WMF | Education Program Manager
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
*Want to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program?*
Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/nsaad-1
I'm really excited to be able to share the results from a research project
Wiki Ed undertook this year to measure the student learning outcomes from
Wikipedia assignments. There's an overview of the findings up now on the
WMF blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/19/wikipedia-information-literacy-study/
Or if you want to jump straight to the report:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Student_Learning_Outcomes_using_Wik…
In conversations with many education program leaders over the last few
months, I know this report is useful to many of you as well. Having this
kind of data on what the impact of Wikipedia assignments is to student
learning is helpful for conversations with potential instructors, school
administrators, and others. I encourage you to use and share the report
widely! We also included all of the data and questions from it under a free
license, so if you'd like to repurpose some for your own use, please feel
free.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education Foundation
www.wikiedu.org
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
The time has come to form an education-focused User Group to support the
needs of the global education community.
This weekend, a group of education leaders from 10 countries gathered in
Yerevan, Armenia. We continued a discussion that began in Berlin at the
Wikimedia Conference to strategize about the future of global educational
initiatives within Wikimedia projects. We discussed our current model of
supporting educational initiatives, including the limitations and
challenges we have faced over the last several years.
Though we do not pretend to cover the entire spectrum of education
programs, we believe our collective experience has given us insight into
common needs within the education community. We believe a User Group is a
natural evolution from the current structure of the Wikipedia Education
Collaborative (the “Collab”). As we organize to support educational
initiatives around the world, we want to be inclusive, open, and
transparent within our community. User Groups have formed to help
Wikimedians collaborate across languages and countries, enabling better
communication and visibility globally. With time, we expect this User Group
may become a Thematic Organization.
Moving forward, we believe it’s vital to elevate the narrative of education
within our movement and the knowledge ecosystem. We see this group as a
platform for sharing the experiences and voicing the needs of the entire
global education community.
*We invite all interested parties **to join the User Group* as members (this
includes affiliates, individual program leaders, educators, students, etc), and
commit to setting the stage for greater success of Wikipedia in Education. *To
show your support, p**lease sign up under the "supporters" section in the
proposal page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.*
Warm regards,
Shani Evenstein, Jami Mathewson, Vassia Atanassova & Liang-chih Shang Kuan
(On behalf of the founding members).
In 2016, Wiki Ed kicked off the largest targeted content initiative ever
undertaken in the Wikimedia world: the Wikipedia Year of Science. When the
year wrapped up in December, our programs for the initiative had added
nearly 5 million words of content to the English Wikipedia. More than 6,300
students edited more than 5,700 articles on STEM and social science
subjects on Wikipedia, and improved biographies of 150 women scientists.
The amount of content added during the Year of Science is impressive:
nearly 5 million words fills 3.5 full volumes of the last print edition of
Encyclopædia Britannica.
But simply touting our numeric successes isn’t enough. As part of Wiki Ed’s
commitment to the Wikimedia movement, we also wanted to evaluate our work —
and document and share our learnings.
We’ve published our Year of Science evaluation on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Year_of_Science_e…
The report highlights what we did as part of the Year of Science in the
Classroom Program, the Visiting Scholars Program, and other projects, as
well as indications of what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned from
the Year of Science. Our goal in publishing this report is to enable other
groups considering creating a large-scale content initiative like the Year
of Science to be able to learn from what we did.
I encourage anyone who’s interested to read the detailed report, or for a
TL;DR version, check out the green “Learnings” boxes. We welcome questions
on the talk page of the report or at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, where I’ll
be presenting on the Year of Science initiative and what we learned from it.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education Foundation
www.wikiedu.org