Wikipedia-based assignments can engage students in an authentic learning experience that involves open collaboration, critical thinking, and knowledge building for a global audience. When students write or edit in Wikipedia, they are not using the same format or skills that they would in writing a research paper or persuasive essay – they are applying new strategies to produce knowledge that people will use in the real world and they are building digital literacies.
Considerations about challenges and opportunities when we ask students to work in the open
Overview of Wikipedia history and culture
Wikipedia assignments best practices and editing how to's No Wikipedia editing experience necessary!
Douglas College
Canada, New Westminster, British Columbia
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Debra Flewelling
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