Hi education program leaders,
Just wanted to flag for you that Wiki Ed (the organization that runs the education program in the US and Canada) has made some changes to our support structure for next term: http://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/12/18/changes-to-classroom-program-for-spring-2...
I wanted to head off any other programs from thinking "does this mean we should change too?" by saying it's something that's right for the size of our program and the support we're able to provide from paid staff, but that doesn't mean it's right for your program, too. :) It makes sense for us as an organization with 12 paid staff supporting (likely) more than 100 classes next term, but that's obviously something unique to Wiki Ed and our program.
I'm happy to answer any questions, LiAnna
LiAnna,
This is great, and very encouraging to see a likely solution here. Can you please post guidance to admins on WP:AN for how to tag articles which need to be listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program/Tasks whether they are being worked on by official WikiEd-onboarded classes or not?
And shouldn't there be a category for suspected plagiarism / copyvios?
The vast majority of the problems I've seen over the past year have been due to copy-and-paste plagiarism from students whose teachers have assigned them Wikipedia editing tasks without being a formal part of Wiki Ed-supported classes. Do you think there needs to be some way to make a higher-profile outreach to such teachers so they can have the huge benefit of your formal guidance and materials? And also, with luck, some way to associate the list of articles involved with editing assignments with some way for editors and admins to contact the faculty responsible for those assignments when things are going wrong?
Best regards, James Salsman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:38 PM, LiAnna Davis lianna@wikiedu.org wrote:
Hi education program leaders,
Just wanted to flag for you that Wiki Ed (the organization that runs the education program in the US and Canada) has made some changes to our support structure for next term: http://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/12/18/changes-to-classroom-program-for-spring-2...
I wanted to head off any other programs from thinking "does this mean we should change too?" by saying it's something that's right for the size of our program and the support we're able to provide from paid staff, but that doesn't mean it's right for your program, too. :) It makes sense for us as an organization with 12 paid staff supporting (likely) more than 100 classes next term, but that's obviously something unique to Wiki Ed and our program.
I'm happy to answer any questions, LiAnna
-- LiAnna Davis Director of Programs Wiki Education Foundation +1-415-770-1061 www.wikiedu.org
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
James,
I'm editing right now to add the documentation! I agree it will be helpful so others can tag articles, too!
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:05 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
LiAnna,
This is great, and very encouraging to see a likely solution here. Can you please post guidance to admins on WP:AN for how to tag articles which need to be listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program/Tasks whether they are being worked on by official WikiEd-onboarded classes or not?
And shouldn't there be a category for suspected plagiarism / copyvios?
The vast majority of the problems I've seen over the past year have been due to copy-and-paste plagiarism from students whose teachers have assigned them Wikipedia editing tasks without being a formal part of Wiki Ed-supported classes. Do you think there needs to be some way to make a higher-profile outreach to such teachers so they can have the huge benefit of your formal guidance and materials? And also, with luck, some way to associate the list of articles involved with editing assignments with some way for editors and admins to contact the faculty responsible for those assignments when things are going wrong?
Best regards, James Salsman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:38 PM, LiAnna Davis lianna@wikiedu.org wrote:
Hi education program leaders,
Just wanted to flag for you that Wiki Ed (the organization that runs the education program in the US and Canada) has made some changes to our
support
structure for next term:
http://wikiedu.org/blog/2014/12/18/changes-to-classroom-program-for-spring-2...
I wanted to head off any other programs from thinking "does this mean we should change too?" by saying it's something that's right for the size of our program and the support we're able to provide from paid staff, but
that
doesn't mean it's right for your program, too. :) It makes sense for us
as
an organization with 12 paid staff supporting (likely) more than 100
classes
next term, but that's obviously something unique to Wiki Ed and our
program.
I'm happy to answer any questions, LiAnna
-- LiAnna Davis Director of Programs Wiki Education Foundation +1-415-770-1061 www.wikiedu.org
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education