[Irtalk] 3 ways to use Wikipedia as an education tool | CILIP

[Hilton Gibson]

Martin Poulter is the Jisc Wikimedia ambassador and blogs here about how
educators can use Wikipedia to engage learners and deepen understanding.

Wikipedia came into being back in 2001. It is very old in internet terms,
but its age means that its pedagogical benefits are now becoming more
deeply understood.

More and more universities are using Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites as a
platform to develop learners’ digital literacy, critical understanding and
collaborative skills. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, "More than
6,500 students have participated in the Wikipedia Education Program around
the world, adding the equivalent of 45,000 printed pages of quality content
to more than 10,000 Wikipedia articles in multiple languages."

http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/3-ways-use-wikipedia-education-tool
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/pipermail/irtalk/attachments/20140329/3bbfd617/attachment.html>