Hello everyone!
I am honored to inform you that several months of integrating Wikipedia
into primary and secondary schools in Serbia has finally paid off!
After the Ministry has prescribed that from September 2014 all students of
the second year of secondary school curriculum *must study wiki tools*,
Institute for the Improvement of knowledge and education has included a
course on Wikipedia in its catalog of programs of continuous professional
development of teachers, professors and other school personnel. We got
accreditation for two years. Not a lot applicants got accreditation.
This course will start in December.
first challenge we successfully crossed :) next will come.
I started writing blog post about this and hope it will be ready on 20
June.
If you have some questions I will be happy to answer you :)
Mile Kiš
Vikimedija Srbije - rs.wikimedia.org -
00381 (0)60 7 454 772
„Zamislite svet u kome svaka osoba ima slobodan pristup celokupnom ljudskom
znanju. To je ono na čemu mi radimo.“
Please forgive the crossposting. If you or someone you know who doesn't
understand enough about OERs have a handful of hours per week this fall,
please consider:
https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/OpenKnowledge/Fall2014/about
Stanford is trying to flip undergraduate instruction. My standard by which
I judge MOOCs are whether they tell students to refrain from communicating
with the instructors.
Lila Tretikov wrote:
>...
> Let's think big.
Okay, I would like to change my opinion about http://
strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Develop_systems_for_accuracy_review
While I still would love to work on it if I had the spare time, I would
also like to ask the Foundation to try to do it first. I feel the same way
about a strategic objective survey for increasing participation by
nurturing social change likely to increase potential volunteer editor spare
time, and I feel both are about equally important for the future of the
projects.
Best regards,
James Salsman
*FINAL CALL FOR FREE REGISTRATION...*
This is a final call for free registration to attend the Future of
Education Workshop, which is taking place in London on 21 and 22 June as
part of the Wikimania 2014 Fringe.
Further details can be found here:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Future_of_Education_Workshop
Register now here:
https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/extern/url.php?u=2314&qid=459139
There are presently only 10 places left, and we'll be taking a waiting list
from Friday if these places are filled up.
Feel free to direct any questions about this event to
education(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Best wishes,
Toni
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