---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Park janepark@creativecommons.org Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:10 AM Subject: [school-of-open] Fwd: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration To: "school-of-open@googlegroups.com" school-of-open@googlegroups.com

woohoo! go Sara and Pete! :)

please help spread the word to your friends new to Wikipedia.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Park janepark@creativecommons.org Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM Subject: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration To: school-of-open-announce@googlegroups.com

For the first quarter of 2014, we are launching School of Open courses on a rolling basis in February, March, and April. The first course to open for sign-up is "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond."

See the full announcement below and at https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41933.

*Below, Sara Frank Bristow invites you to join "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond". Sara is a co-organizer of the course and a member of WikiProject Open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN. Both projects are part of the School of Open.* ------------------------------

The School of Open will offer its popular "Writing Wikipedia Articleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO" course (WIKISOO) starting *25 February, 2014*. This free introductory online course, now in its fourth incarnation, runs for six weeks. Enrollment is open to all. [image: WikiSOO_Burba]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO_badges

WIKISOO Burba Badge

WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through their work in the course, they join an effort that has generated millions of free articles in hundreds of languages since 2001.The course covers the technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical insights into the site's collaborative norms and social dynamics. Students graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as a reader and as an active participant.

The course focuses on articles about openness in education: open educational resourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources(OER), MOOCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOCs, Creative Commonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons licenses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license and more. Students will forge connections with WikiProject Openhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN, a community of volunteers focused on this topic area. Upon successful completion, students earn the WIKISOO Burba Badgehttp://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/22/ .

The course is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the University of Mississippi. Course instructors are:

- Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia trainer & consultant (Wiki Strategies) - Sara Frank Bristow, OER and online education researcher (Salient Research) - Dr. Robert Cummings, Associate Professor (University of Mississippi)

Course registration is now open!

- More course information: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO - Enroll: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW