Hi!
I'm in the process of launching a community consultation for Education
Program in Finland. I was wondering what is the state of the Programs &
Events Dashboard (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/)? Is it
something we could use for our program starting next January?
Best
Teemu Perhiö
Wikimedia Finland
HI Piotr!
This is great to hear you are working on this. I haven't seen much about
how wikipedia in the classroom influences "real world" outcomes for
students and it is a much needed space for research to help make the case
for the Education Program to school administration. I am aware that WikiEd
is working on a project
<https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/09/14/mr-8-2016/#more-9076> to learn more
about classroom outcomes in the U.S., but I'm not sure how that is going.
You can probably reach out to them for more information.
I am more than happy to help with the design of the questions.
All the best,
Edward
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> My new research project, inspired by the following CfP ( *http://www.asanet.org/journals/TS/SpecialIssueCall.cfm
> <http://www.asanet.org/journals/TS/SpecialIssueCall.cfm>)* aims at trying
> to judge how effective our teaching assignments on Wikipedia have been, in
> the context of my globalization lectures in which students have created or
> expanded dozens of Wikipedia articles (you can see partial list of articles
> created by my students at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> User:Piotrus/Educational_project_results to get an idea of what I had
> them to do over the past few years). It is clear that Wikipedia benefits,
> but what about the students? Here are my two questions to you.
>
> First, my main source of data is going to be a survey of my former
> students (N<100). I wonder if anyone is familiar with literature on
> relevant metrics (i.e. how to design a survey to measure the effectiveness
> of a teaching instrument)? I have never surveyed students before, and while
> I am in the middle of a lit review, any suggestions would be appreciated. I
> am somewhat familiar with the literature on teaching with Wikipedia, but
> sadly few works have published surveys used. If anything comes to mind that
> you think would be good to use for comparative studies, that would also be
> helpful.
>
> Second, here is my draft survey: http://tinyurl.com/hehckvs
>
> I'd appreciate any comments: is it too long? Are some questions ambiguous?
> Unnecessary? Leading and creating bias in subsequent questions? Should I
> rephrase something? Should I ask something else?
>
> Thank you for any comments, and do not hesitate to be critical - I'd much
> rather redo the survey now then after I send it out :)
>
> --
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Edward Galvez
Evaluation Strategist (Survey Specialist), and
Affiliations Committee Liaison
Learning & Evaluation
Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
*TL:DR: The Community Engagement department invites you to participate in
the Leadership Development Dialogue now through October 16th [1]*
Hello there,
One of the really valuable, parts of our community, is the growing number
of volunteers who step beyond their comfort zone, and become guides,
mentors, and leaders for other parts of the volunteer community. This act
of emerging, to take on responsibilities that strengthen our community is
widespread, but also something that we need to embrace, refine and improve,
so that we have the capacity to meet our broader mission.
>From now through October 16th, the Community Engagement department invites
you to participate in an online dialogue about just how to describe and
build the leadership capacity. Please invite all who may be interested by
forwarding to your local community mailing lists, and be sure to join us
at: [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/
Leadership_Development_Dialogue
In particular, we need your help:
-
Improving the “Learning Days” and other leadership development programs
supported by the WMF and other organizations
-
Refining the language and concepts we use to describe “leadership” -- in
our initial exploratory engagement of focus groups, we found that the word
“leader” does not translate well across language and cultures.
In behalf of the Community Engagement department, we hope to see you on the
wiki!
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \\
Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
Calling all Education Program Leaders and Educators that appreciate what
Wikipedia (and its sister projects) can do for education!!
We've been working on the #Eduwiki campaign, which is focused on helping
teachers experience with and learn from using Wikipedia as an educational
resource, with the support of 4 lesson plans.
The campaign's main page can be found here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign (some translations have been made,
but there's always room for more languages) ;)
There's also a suggested press kit available, that can be used as a base
when reaching out to media. It can be found here: https://docs.google.com/
document/d/1FzTEpaeD0LlxbWZLfZTToRpESzJHecREAqMKMvVKccg/edit?usp=sharing Feel
free to adapt it to your context. For instance, do add names, e-mails and
twitter contacts for the representatives that are most appropriate for your
country and language. The Collab members are there to give support when
needed: reach back to education(a)wikimedia.org if you would like to receive
assistance, and we will help you connect to a Collab member.
We kindly request you help us with diffusion on social media as well. We
will be tweeting daily from our @WikiEduProgram account. You are of course
welcome to follow the account, re-tweet what you like and translate and
adapt to your context.
This initiative/experiment is carried out in the spirit of helping the
movement to reach out to educators. Support will be available from Collab
members where needed,
Cheers!
Vahid.
--
Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Thought this list might be interested in some of the research coming out of
the Wiki Education Foundation today. What portion of academic content are
student editors in the USA/Canada contributing to English Wikipedia through
course assignments? Here’s what we learned:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/08/31/academic-content/
For those who want to dive deep, there's more information on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Student_production_of_academic_con…
Our Data Science intern Kevin Schiroo has done some great work exploring
our dashboard and generating new datasets (you can find more here
<https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/06/15/student-editors-contributed-nearly-6-of…>).
I'll
note that this doesn't quite replicate or internationalize, as it's based
on the English Wikipedia (and therefore English-language sourcing and
academic terms). Nonetheless, it's definitely interesting work.
--
Eryk Salvaggio
Communications Manager
Wiki Education Foundation
eryk(a)wikiedu.org
User:Eryk (Wiki Ed) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eryk_(Wiki_Ed)>
@WikiEducation <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation>
wikiedu.org
*Our organization supports the Wikipedia Education Program in the United
States and Canada.*