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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*Med vänliga hälsningar, *
*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
Dear collab-orators,
since Stockholm I have been trying to help with the development of the
Program&Events
Dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> which is, at some point,
likely to replace the outdated Education Extension. Yesterday Amanda
Bittaker (CC'ed) gave me a guided tour of the current state of dashboard
and I had an opportunity to ask questions. I will also be taking part in
biweekly calls with the developer team to make sure that the Dashboard
development is going the right direction.
Some of you are probably already using it but most of the large country
programs are not using it yet on a large scale. I think there is a lack of
reliable and trustworthy information about the P&E Dashboard so let me give
you an update what it does:
- Is is an open system letting *anyone *with a Wikipedia account log in
and create his/her own course pages. There is nothing like userrights
except for developer access
- advantage: no barriers,
- disadvantage: possible vandalism or trolling.
- When you create a course page, you can send a link to this course
page so that participants can log in. Students need to *fill in a
"password" *- this can be publicly announced on the course page or
entirely private
- advantage: enables to "close" course for a desired group people only
- disadvantage: participants have to overcome one more step when they
want to enrol in the course
- you can *create a course *by cloning one of your past course pages
(not someone else's) or by starting a completely new page. In the course
page set-up, you can choose your "home project" and "home language".
- there is probably *no way to add "templates" to course pages*. For
example, each our course page on Czech Wikipedia has a template
which links
to guidelines, helpdesk etc.
- you can *edit the course page* if you are the creator or the
creator has assigned you as the "facilitator" of the course.
- advantage: preventing changes done by people who have no relationship
or knowledge about the project
- disadvantage: teachers creating course pages have to assign local
coordinators as facilitators otherwise the facilitators cannot help them
design the pages or curate them. This will lead to a load of
e-mails saying
"Can you please assign me as a facilitator to the course, sir?"
- *creating campaigns (groups of courses)* is not available yet. It is
not sure when it will be ready but hopefully before March. This is crucial
to large country programs - we need to have a list of "our" projects.
- advantage: you can include some information or links or training
material to the individual course pages
- disadvantage: anyone will be able to create campaigns - this will
lead to a mess
Overall the Community Tech team has done a good job in recent months!
Thanks for your work on this and especially for all you are planning to do.
But we need more work before the large programs like ours are likely to use
it on a large scale.
For more information please see this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard>.
You can give feedback on the discussion page there. This will be very
useful for the developers who are eager to get some input, especially about
the campaigns, according to Amanda.
Also I think we need to think about the *name of the dashboard* more... I
cannot imagine telling our students to open browser and type
*http://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
<http://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> *- we should make a shortened
version too with a catchy name than can be easily communicated without
knowledge of English. My Phabricator ticket for this is here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146332>, without any comments for two
months now.
I understand there will be some announcements coming from the Community
Tech team in near future.
I think this would be also useful to the education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
people. There has been no official information about the Dashboard for
months on that mailing list!
best,
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chair of the board
Wikimedia Česká republika | http://www.wikimedia.cz
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter
<https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/b--eXr>
Cross posting to the Collab list :)
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:53 PM
Subject: Are you using education surveys in your programs?
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
I wanted to ask anyone has been using the Education survey templates
available on Outreach[1]? Have you found them useful? Is there anything
that needs to improve?
If you haven't used them, be sure to check them out. We have survey
questions for students in a classroom[2], educator surveys about their
classroom[3], and educator training [4].
Best,
Tighe
[1]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys
[2]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys/Students
[3]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys/
Educator_survey_about_their_classroom
[4]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys/
Educator_training_survey
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
TL;DR Let’s collect feedback about membership criteria and refocus on the
Collab’s goals. There is a need for clarity internally and externally :)
Dear Collab members,
Based on yesterday’s conversation on the Collab call, and on the growing
experience that we (the Collab and the Education Team) are having, it seems
like it is time to move to the next stage in the Collab’s evolution. We all
appreciate how the dedicated services the Collab selflessly offer to the
Movement, and its the education goals in particular, are valuable and
indeed bring a highly specialized focus to key aspects of its growth.
As the group decided in its in-person meeting in March, the Collab has three
key focus areas
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…>
:
-
Dashboard implementation
-
Mentoring
-
Comms support + Resources
These areas may change over time, as the movement and its needs progress,
but are representative of the current stage of the movement’s activities.
As we all know, participation in the Collab is completely voluntary, and
the time each member dedicates to it is even more valuable because of that.
As the Collab’s specialized service to the Movement evolves, it becomes
somewhat natural to make the framework for its work more explicit, and
having open conversations around the expectations we have for it also
become necessary.
We would therefore like to propose continuing this conversation we started
this month. Participation is welcome on this list, *on-wiki*
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Education/Wikipedia_Education_Coll…>,
or privately through direct email. We also want to make sure that other
stakeholders in the movement can join in the conversation (our list and
wikis are public and open, and some affiliates are already giving direct
feedback to the Education Team). We expect the outcome to be a frank and
constructive conversation that will update the membership criteria, and
clarify for everyone (including non-Collab members) what the Collab is and
does. We would like this conversation to happen over the months of December
and January.
Our team sees a need for robust conversations around education that are not
limited to the Collab spaces (our mailing list, virtual meetings, and
in-person meetings). Considering the specific work of the Collab, it
doesn’t make sense for Collab conversations to take the place of
discussions on the Education list, for example. For starters, the Education
Team intends to dedicate more of our efforts to general education spaces,
not just the Collab spaces. We appreciate Collab members who have helped in
these areas (like on Facebook, Twitter, Education-l, and the Newsletter).
We believe in a multi-pronged approach to making the Collab and the general
education spaces in the Movement productive and meaningful. Ideas welcome :)
I look forward to this important conversation!
Best regards,
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Du har blivit inbjuden till följande händelse.
Titel: Collab November Call
När: ons den 16 nov. 2016 18:00 – 18:50 Stockholm
Var: Google Hangout
Kalender: Sara jobb
Vem:
* Sara Mörtsell– har skapat händelsen
* education-collab(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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