Dear fellow Wikipedians:
This is to let you know about my most recent article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray. We’re especially proud of this piece, in which we make a pedagogical and public-service case for writing and editing Wikipedia articles for law school credit. The article has just been published in the Journal of Legal Education, which, appropriately, is an open-access journal. The current volume can be found here: http://jle.aals.org/home/. You can also read an abstract and download the article from my SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) website, here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
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Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
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Good evening, Professor Christie. My name is Lixxx235, and I'm a Wikipedia
editor and an Online Ambassador with the Wikipedia Education Program. (
userpage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lixxx235>)
It's come to my attention (through a student's request for help via
Wikipedia's live chat) that you have given your students assignments
relating to editing Wikipedia. While the Wikipedia Education Program fully
supports such assignments, and endorses a number of courses at various
universities around the world, according to one of your students, an
assignment you've given seems to have students confused and is causing
submissions in violation of some Wikipedia policies and wasting volunteer
and student time. For example, this
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fuel_controlled_fires_…>
is an entry one of your students tried to get help on from our live help
chat. This submission does not meet Wikipedia guidelines such as notability
policies, policies requiring verifiability of material, and policies
requiring a neutral point of view (NPOV) to be kept. In addition, it was
not in Wikipedia's standard format.
We'd love to get in touch with you. Please reply back to
lixxx235wikipedia(a)gmail.com and education(a)lists.wikimedia.org to see how we
can help you develop good assignments for editing Wikipedia and how we can
resolve some issues with your current assignment.
All the best,
Lixxx235
English Wikipedia
*Dear colleagues,As you may have heard, in March I spent a couple of weeks
at UNESCO for Mobile Learning Week and to network with folks there about
global goals for education and Wikimedia in education. A few really great
opportunities came up, but one of them is quite pressing. The UNESCO
Communications and Information Sector
<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/> (CI) is
leading the initiative for the General Conference
<https://en.unesco.org/generalconference> to adopt a recommendation about
the use of OERs to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4). Some
background information on recommendations can be found here
<http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23772&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION…>.
A quick summary is that a recommendation, though not an enforceable policy
mechanism, requires that member states who apply to it adopt national
policies that align with the recommendation and report on their compliance.
Essentially, we have the opportunity to be a part of influencing policy
around the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in education. UNESCO
adopting this policy will mean that governments around the world will be
strongly compelled to support the use of OER in education. For us, this
means that Wikimedia projects will have a stronger reputation in education
globally. Wikimedia projects are OERs that not only allow students to
consume information, but that support the critical consumption of
information as well as empower students and educators to be content
creators. Contributing to this policy recommendation will give us the
opportunity to advocate for that message, and support the work of community
members around the world who are doing education programs.We have been
formally invited to participate in the open invitation for comments on this
recommendation, and the deadline is set for June 1. I’m asking for your
input, so that we can make this comment as a collective. Here is how you
can participate: *Read the Recommendation.(There are both English
<https://www.oercongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Draft-OER-Recommenda…>
and French
<https://www.oercongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Draft-OER-Recommenda…>
Versions)*Provide your input in this google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHGzJZQqs3kbWclQeN5xI7P9e2OY-mlXD…>
by May 18. Please note that the document itself is full of UN and policy
jargon, and may be difficult to analyze. I’ve included some guiding
questions in the google form that will hopefully help you to provide input.
This invitation is a good first step in developing a closer relationship
with UNESCO for Wikimedia projects in Education, and I hope to be sharing
more opportunities with you in the future. best regards,Nichole*
--
*Nichole Saad*
WMF | Education Program Manager
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Hi LiAnna,
That's interesting and nice to hear. It's refreshing to hear good news.
I wish you the best for future iterations of this program.
Thanks,Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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> Fellows shared in surveys that they felt encouraged to apply to the program
> because their academic associations see it as aligning with their mission
> to disseminate knowledge to the public; at the end of the pilot,
> participants saw it as professional development in refreshing how to
> communicate to the public and learning how to participate in an online
> community like Wikipedia. This is certainly not universal across academics
> or universities....
LiAnna,
If any of the Fellows responded indicating a differing opinion, please send them
http://ide.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/SSRN-id3039505.pdf
especially the part about being 1,700 times more cost effective on
page 32. I am hopeful that you will align your Fellows program
recruiting to match the coverage and accuracy needs of the wikipedias.
And again, I want to take this opportunity to reiterate my
recommendation to establish an essay contest for students on topics
such as economics, or any of Wikipedia's under-represented sciences or
humanities. The last time we discussed this question I did not
understand the reasons that you suggested such an essay contest would
be inappropriate. You not only objected to the idea of an essay
contest, but you asked me to not run such a contest myself, saying
that asking Education Program students, "to write essays would be
counterproductive given the mission of our program, our organization,
and the Wikimedia movement. We will not support this effort, and ask
that you do not reach out to them on your own."
Is that still your position on the subject? You didn't provide any
reasons that the best Wikipedians aren't also the best essay writers
on the Wikipedia projects. You didn't say how you measured the
purported counterproductivity, you didn't say whether the restraint
you asked of my freedom of expression was an official or a personal
request, you didn't offer anything which would make me less likely to
want to run such an essay contest myself, and you didn't say whether
Frank Schulenberg or Katherine Maher agree with your refusal, your
assessment of counterproductively, or your request that I not hold
such a contest.
Best regards,
Jim
Greetings, all!
At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot
to engage academic experts (mostly professors at universities in the U.S.)
to improve English Wikipedia articles related to their areas of expertise.
We're pretty happy with how the pilot turned out -- we had some great
improvements to articles, and, more importantly for a pilot, we learned a
*lot* about how to run a program like this successfully.
The team that worked on it put together this extensive evaluation report on
what we did, what we learned, and what the outcomes were from the pilot:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikipedia_Fellows…
I also put together a short blog post about it:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/22/wiki-education-publishes-evaluation-of-…
We already have calls for applications out for additional cohorts to begin
in June, and we're eager to learn even more from future iterations of the
Wikipedia Fellows program. I hope sharing our learnings like this can be
helpful for other education programs in the Wikimedia movement who might
also be interested in engaging subject matter experts to edit.
We're happy to answer questions on this list or on the talk page of the
evaluation report on Meta.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education
www.wikiedu.org
+1 - Congratulations!
This is a huge win ... and a policy roadmap for other countries to follow.
Love Melissa's idea of you writing a blog post about this success and the
work leading up to this new open education policy. Please do let us know
if you do - so we can all help amplify the good news. If you'd like, you
can publish it on the Creative Commons blog... or we can republish your CC
licensed post and link to the original.
Thanks to everyone who did the hard work which led to this success!
Cable
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Carolina Rossini <
carolina.rossini(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> http://aberta.org.br/ministry-of-education-publishes-oer-ordinance/
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Melissa Hagemann <melissa.hagemann@
> opensocietyfoundations.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Priscila and Débora,
>>
>>
>>
>> Belated congratulations!!
>>
>>
>>
>> From Carolina Rossini’s first work on this a decade ago, you’ve secured a
>> huge victory, which demonstrates that focused awareness raising and
>> advocacy can lead to the adoption of national OER mandates, even in a
>> country as large and complex as Brazil. It provides a wonderful example for
>> other countries as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Would you consider writing a blog post, so the news could be shared more
>> widely?
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Melissa
>>
>>
>>
>> Melissa Hagemann
>>
>> Senior Program Manager
>> Information Program
>> Open Society Foundations
>>
>> 1730 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #700
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1730+Pennsylvania+Ave.,+NW,+%23700+%0D%0A+Washin…>
>>
>> Washington, DC
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1730+Pennsylvania+Ave.,+NW,+%23700+%0D%0A+Washin…>
>>
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1730+Pennsylvania+Ave.,+NW,+%23700+%0D%0A+Washin…>
>> 20006
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1730+Pennsylvania+Ave.,+NW,+%23700+%0D%0A+Washin…>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* internationaloeradvocacy(a)googlegroups.com [mailto:
>> internationaloeradvocacy(a)googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Priscila
>> Gonsales
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2018 7:36 AM
>> *To:* Alek Tarkowski <atarkowski(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl>
>> *Cc:* International OER Advocacy <internationaloeradvocacy@goog
>> legroups.com>; OER Advocacy Coalition <oer-advocacy-coalition@google
>> groups.com>; education(a)lists.wikimedia.org; open-education(a)lists.okfn.org;
>> Open Education Platform <cc-openedu(a)googlegroups.com>; asha kanwar <
>> akanwar(a)col.org>; Natcom Slovenia2 <Gasper.Hrastelj(a)gov.si>; Melissa
>> Hagemann <melissa.hagemann(a)opensocietyfoundations.org>; Tel Amiel <
>> tel(a)amiel.info>; Débora Sebriam <debora(a)educadigital.org.br>
>> *Subject:* Re: MEC Brazil publishes an ordinance for OER!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> Tks Jenn, Ovidiu and Alek! 😊
>>
>>
>>
>> Everything started with our 2015 OER Seminar at House of Representatives
>> (Nicole, Jan and Hal were here with us). After that we have aimed our
>> efforts to executive branch and we managed to have a commitment about OER
>> in OGP Brazil. With this commitment a lot of things have started changing.
>>
>>
>>
>> This current ordinance is the best thing that could happen. It is a rule,
>> an official normative. It works like a law inside the Ministry.
>>
>>
>>
>> Note that the ordinance doesn't determine by nc. It determines use,
>> reuse, adaptation. The type of license will be defined in each edital,
>> contract etc. Depends on the characteristics of the department, the
>> resource that will be produced, and, mainly, the knowledge and self
>> confidence of the civil servants for implementation. We are still work on
>> this, because we want this ordinance be effective.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Priscila Gonsales
>> www.educadigital.org.br
>>
>> (enviado pelo celular)
>>
>>
>>
>> Em Ter, 22 de mai de 2018 02:56, Alek Tarkowski <
>> atarkowski(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl> escreveu:
>>
>> Dear Priscila,
>>
>>
>>
>> Congratulations, this is great news. And I know that it is a result of a
>> long effort by you and other activists - I am very happy about your success!
>>
>>
>>
>> How does the Ministry interpret “open licenses”? I checked in the
>> ordnance and it seems - with my very limited understanding of Portuguese
>> and automated translation - that the definition is good and suggests the
>> most open licenses. Do you know which ones the Ministry will in practice
>> promote and use? Did you have a debate about the non-commercial condition?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Alek
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18 May 2018, at 21:19, Priscila Gonsales <prigon(a)educadigital.org.br>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Open Education friends,
>> *Definitely, "**Good things come to those who wait" *
>>
>> I'm writing just to let you know of important news here in Brazil. This
>> is the most important in the recent times!
>>
>> The Ministry of Education of Brazil has just published an ordinance that
>> determines that all educational resources paid for by the ministry which
>> are to be used in basic education must be openly licensed and use open
>> format/standards whenever possible. This will have huge impact on the
>> number of educational resources available in Portuguese for this sector.
>> Resources will be made available in a new open-source repository (
>> http://plataformaintegrada.mec.gov.br).
>>
>> A small note is published here in english, as part of our work on the
>> open education initiative: http://aberta.org.br/ministry-
>> of-education-publishes-oer-ordinance/
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>>
>>
>> Priscila
>>
>>
>>
>> 2018-03-21 11:08 GMT-03:00 Priscila Gonsales <prigon(a)educadigital.org.br
>> >:
>>
>> Greetings Open Education friends,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm proud to announce that we from Brazil Open Education Initiative
>> <http://www.aberta.org.br/> are going to launch the biggest Brazilian
>> action for OER training we've heard.
>>
>> In April, the first edition of the OER course
>> <http://www.cursorea.net.br/>for Open University Brazil Program (UAB)
>> from Ministry of Education expects to reach more than 300 participants. In
>> this action we are engaging federal universities professors and police
>> makers to foster the open education concept in order to make the practice
>> come true. UAB is the official federal program to provide higher education
>> to the basic education teachers (15% out of 2 millions teachers). The
>> second edition, scheduled for September, will be dedicated to OER
>> facilitators training.
>>
>>
>>
>> Link to the official news (in portuguese): http://www.capes.
>> gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/noticias/8783-capes-promove-curso-
>> sobre-recursos-educacionais-abertos
>>
>>
>>
>> At the same time, and as part of the course, we will release to the
>> general public our OER referatory platform *RE-li-A* (Recursos
>> Educacionais com licenças Abertas), we emphasize *"li"* because all
>> resources available on the platform must have be under an open license. It
>> is a wordpress platform and the code are at git.hub — it could be used by
>> any school or educational institution who wants to index their own
>> resources. RE-li-A was built by us with support from a crowdfunding
>> campaign. And the great news is: *RE-li-A is fully integrated with
>> Ministry of Education Platform:* https://plataformain
>> tegrada.mec.gov.br/usuario-publico/332/
>>
>>
>>
>> However, we have to raise funds to continue work on *RE-li-A project.*
>> I'd like to ask you about suggestions of funding opportunities.
>>
>>
>>
>> I appreciate your attencion!
>>
>> All the best!
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Priscila Gonsales*
>> Instituto Educadigital
>> www.educadigital.org.br
>> Tel. (11) 99185-8452
>> Twitter: @prigon
>> FB: www.facebook.com/priscila.gonsales
>> Skype: priscila.gonsales
>> Ashokas's fellow <https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/priscila-gonsales>
>>
>>
>>
>> Twitter - twitter.com/ieducadigital
>> Facebook - *https://www.facebook.com/institutoeducadigital/
>> <https://www.facebook.com/institutoeducadigital/>*
>> Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ieducadigital
>> Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/ieducadigital
>> <http://www.youtube.com/user/ieducadigital>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Priscila Gonsales*
>> Instituto Educadigital
>> www.educadigital.org.br
>> Tel. (11) 99185-8452
>> Twitter: @prigon
>> FB: www.facebook.com/priscila.gonsales
>> Skype: priscila.gonsales
>> Ashokas's fellow <https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/priscila-gonsales>
>>
>>
>>
>> Twitter - twitter.com/ieducadigital
>> Facebook - *https://www.facebook.com/institutoeducadigital/
>> <https://www.facebook.com/institutoeducadigital/>*
>> Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ieducadigital
>> Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/ieducadigital
>> <http://www.youtube.com/user/ieducadigital>
>>
>>
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Dear Wiki Education Enthusiasts,
Great Opportunity for all of you.I want to let you know about the following
*MOOC* that will begin June 1. It is Introductory Level Open Education
practice designed for post-secondary (tertiary) educators. Everyone that
wants to learn is welcome. If there are educators with whom you work that
you believe would be interested. From *June 1-15, 2018*, a global
mini-MOOC (massive open online course) called Making Sense of Open
Education will take place through the *OpenLearn* UK Moodle platform. The
course will consist of short daily lessons and activities at an
introductory level. The purpose of the course is to increase awareness and
use of *open educational resources (OER)* as part of post-secondary
(tertiary) teaching and learning. Topics will include OER, open educational
practices (OEP), copyright and the Creative Commons licenses, and open
tools for adaptation. A variety of experienced open educators, and friends
from global regions will participate and support learning and sharing
opportunities. Daily lessons will take approximately 30 minutes to complete
with a targeted (and hopefully fun) daily practice opportunity to apply
learning. The course team and others that have already signed up look
forward to your participation.
*There is no cost to participate in the course.* The full set of course
modules will be made available on the course front page June 1 for anyone
to download, save, and adapt as they desire if they prefer to take the
course in a self-directed way.
Questions? Please contact the Course Lead, Jenni Hayman via email:
jlhayman(a)asu.edu
Registration is open at the Following Link: https://bit.ly/2EV3FHV
*On Behalf of Jenni Hayman,*
*Mohammed Galib Hasan*
*Volunteer (Wikipedia Education Program)*
Email: mdabir158(a)gmail.com