Open Practices: Teaching and Learning with Wikipedia Roundtable

Series: Open Education

Event Date & Time

  • February 1, 2017
    12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Event Description

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 working with Wikipedia, students are asked to engage with communities other than their peers in a classroom, open their ideas up to public scrutiny, and evaluate, create and communicate information in new ways. 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.

In this discussion based session, a roundtable of UBC instructors who have integrated Wikipedia-based assignments into their courses will have a conversation and share practical knowledge about their assignment models, what worked, what challenges were encountered, what support they had or needed, and things they would do differently.

The round table members will include:

  • Jon Beasley-Murray
  • Judy Chan
  • Christine D’Onofrio
  • Kathryn Grafton
  • Tina Loo

Venue:  

Venue Website:

Address:
1961 E Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Please note this room is located through the CTLT offices of the 2nd floor in IKBLC.