Wikipedia Education Program: "Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignments"

Speaking next Tuesday at Reinventing Higher Education, 3rd International Conference, October 22-23, 2012

www.rhe.ie.edu/speakers.php

Annie Lin,
Global Education Program Manager Wikimedia Foundation.

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outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program

The idea behind the Wikipedia Education Program is simple: Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignments.

Wikipedia is being used as a teaching tool in education around the world (see a list of programs). The Wikimedia Foundation currently runs four programs: Brazil, Canada, Egypt, and the United States.

In each country, volunteer Wikipedia Ambassadors assist professors as they assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia on course-related topics. The Wikimedia Foundation started the program in the United States in 2010, Canada in 2011, and Brazil and Egypt in 2012. More than 3,500 students have participated in the Wikipedia Education Program around the world, adding the equivalent of 20,000 printed pages of quality content to more than 6,000 Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.

Campus Ambassadors assist students in-person.

• Background on the Wikipedia Education Program
• Program overview (PDF)
• Fact sheet (PDF)
• Media coverage
• Visual identity
• Photo gallery
• Wikipedia Education Program Update (twice-monthly newsletter)