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This page is about Wikipedia and school projects. For an overview of Wikipedia in relation to schools, see Wikipedia:Schools' FAQ. For Oversight (also known as Suppression), see Wikipedia:Oversight.
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Students writing on a blackboard in a village school in Laos
The University of California Berkeley's Politics of Piracy Decal Fall 2010 Class taking part in a course that uses Wikipedia

Everyone is welcome here. If you're a professor, teacher, or student within the college community, we encourage you to use Wikipedia in your course to demonstrate how an open content website works. Many of these projects have resulted in both advancing the students' knowledge and useful content being added to Wikipedia. An advantage of this over regular homework is that the student is dealing with a real world situation, which is not only more educational but also makes it more interesting ("the world gets to see my work"), possibly resulting in increased dedication. Besides, it will give the students a chance to collaborate on course notes and papers, and their effort might remain online for reference, instead of being discarded and forgotten as is usual with paper coursework, or classroom systems which are routinely reinitialized. We offer some best practices guidelines to support educational and academic projects.

The classroom coordination project exists to provide guidance to educators who incorporate Wikipedia writing assignments into their classes. Feel free to post questions for experienced Wikipedia volunteers at the talk page. In 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation has expressed official support for teaching with Wikipedia and facilitated the creation of a dedicated group of volunteers that you can ask for assistance in your course.

Please feel free to share your experiences with us and give feedback at outreach:Coursework feedback so we can continue to improve Wikipedia as a resource for school and university projects.

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Guidelines [edit]

Why assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework is beneficial for the students?
In contrast to traditional writing assignments, working with Wikipedia may offer several advantages for students:
  • students are held accountable to a global audience for what they are doing, and thus may feel more devoted to the assignment as a whole;
  • students' work will likely continue to be used and to be improved upon by others after the assignment has ended;
  • students learn the difference between fact-based and analytical writing styles;
  • students strengthen their ability to think critically and evaluate sources;
  • students learn how to work in a collaborative environment
  • students gain insights in the creation process of texts on Wikipedia. This enables them to draw conclusions about the purposes for which Wikipedia is best used;
  • students gain insights in the creation process of texts on Wikis in general, an increasingly essential skill in a modern IT workplace (that can be put on one's CV); and
  • students understand that they not only consume information, they help to create it.
Why assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework is beneficial for the Wikipedia community?
The community benefits as:
  • more content is created;
  • more people gain skills in editing Wikipedia and can become potential long-term contributors; and
  • more people gain a strong understanding of Wikipedia's reliability and can use its content more reliably.
Why assigning Wikipedia articles as coursework is beneficial for the course leader?
The course leader gains various benefits from using Wikipedia as a platform for education, in particular:
  • he is assisted in the task of guiding/assessing students by other editors from the community
Action Plan
Phase A: Preparatory phase 1. Recruit facilitators.
2. Think of what goals your students should reach. Use the experience of your facilitators to check feasibility.
3. Create work plan: time table and a list of tasks or articles.
Phase B: Course phase 4. Teach Wikipedia basics: formal requirements, editing, quality management, tutorial for advanced learners. If you invite a public speaker, there will be a more constructive feeling: "there are qualified humans behind the nicks; cooperation produces better content" / course notes, 90 minutes.
5. Execute and monitor all phases and operationalize on Wikipedia (encouraging students during the process, dealing with drawbacks)
Model Model: Bachelor in the United States
  • Your students can work on comprehensive topics
  • Formation of groups: Besides their individual articles, your students should work on a collaborative article to train teamwork and soft skill management.
  • Well proofed is the goal of creating content orientated on the criteria good or featured article. You ought not use the local candidates, if there is no fixed timeline.
    1. The lecturer prepares a list of tasks (e. g. a list of articles to edit); those tasks then are assigned to the participants.
    2. Working groups are established: 3-5 students should work on a theme; ideal: scientific items (accurate selected and reputable sources).
    3. Students reach into their themes and (re-) write an article (3 weeks).
    4. Wikipedia Peer-review (2 weeks)
    5. Review by lecturer
Phase C: Conclusion phase 6. Evaluate your course (finish your course, provide feedback to your students and to Wikipedia)


(Please replace TITLE with your actual project title.)

I want to do it without facilitators.
Please do keep the following guidelines in mind:
  1. Practice first yourself before setting an assignment. Log into Wikipedia yourself, and spend some time editing. Do this long enough to get some feedback to your work, preferably long enough to also include negative (and, if you are lucky, unreasonable) feedback which will help you understand some of the more problematic aspects of Wikipedia. If you are not happy about associating this with your academic name, you can easily create a pseudonym - but please create an account for yourself.
  2. Introductions. When you want to start such a project, please briefly describe what you are doing on this page under the "Current projects" heading, and if you think it is distinctive enough, feel free to leave a note on the Wikipedia:Village pump. Leave some contact information in the event that you need to be contacted about your project. Your Wikipedia account's talk page is sufficient if you check periodically for new messages.
  3. Keep it real. Please do not encourage your students to create nonsense pages or add junk to articles. Though usually cleaned up very quickly, it still has to be done manually by people who would prefer to engage in more productive work on encyclopedia articles. Furthermore, your students might be blocked from editing Wikipedia for "vandalism." In egregious cases, this will result in your entire school being blocked. If you want your students to 'learn wiki' first, please ask them to read Wikipedia:Help and direct them to Wikipedia:Sandbox for any test or practice edits they wish to make.
  4. Testing and avoiding. It may be a good idea—though not necessarily easy—to run your own wiki and use it for experiments first. Use the MediaWiki software which can be installed on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X - see here and here. If some students do not want to submit material to Wikipedia (which forces their content to be licensed under the free content license CC-BY-SA 3.0), they can use this for their final exercise instead.
  5. Account names. Please do not create numerical accounts that match your university or school account numbers. While this may be initially convenient, if your students continue to edit Wikipedia, they may well wish to do so under a real name or a more congenial pseudonym. It also becomes confusing for other Wikipedians to review a number of edits made under very similar account names. Note that Wikipedia user names are for individuals only (see WP:NOSHARE), so even though your students may be working as a group they must each have their own user name and they are each responsible for their own editing.
  6. Read The "Fine" Manual. Encourage your students to take a look at the pages linked from Wikipedia:Help — they should answer many immediate questions.
  7. Copyrights. Please do keep Wikipedia:Copyrights in mind. Not everything on the Web is free for the taking, and even that which is may not be compatible with our licensing. This is true for both text and images. Please remember your students will probably work from your own course notes. Be sure that this is acceptable. Furthermore, check who owns your students' course work. If the owner is your institution, check that you have permission to submit it. If it is your students, ensure that you have their legitimate, probably written, consent to require them to add material to Wikipedia.
  8. Summarize and analyze. Once you have finished a project, we would very much appreciate reading a description of the results. This could be on a separate page if it is long, or on this page in the "Past projects" heading.
  9. No original research. Wikipedia is not the place to publish new ideas, discoveries or articles. We are an encyclopedia, not an academic journal. You should familiarize yourself with our relevant policies, "No original research" and "What Wikipedia is not".
    • Original Research To publish or operate original research projects please consider Wikipedia's sister site http://www.wikiversity.org Projects and publication of original data and research activities are expected to remain within the constraints of evolving policy as with any reputable institution. As a site designed to support learning communities, Wikiversity has much greater flexibility to deal with tailored learning activities and data publication than a prestigious encyclopedia.
  10. There are many other wikis, most with editorial policies different from Wikipedia's. Wikipedia is the world's most-visited wiki, and one of the largest. Wikipedia articles tend to rank high in Google Search results. Wikipedia's prominence attracts a large number of first-time wiki editors, some of whom are unaware that many other wikis exist. Because Wikipedia's editorial policies are much stricter than the ease of article editing may initially suggest, many articles by new editors are deleted. Some new editors would arguably be happier editing elsewhere, for example, on wikis catering to particular subject areas, with less-strict requirements for neutrality, verifiability and no original research. Choose Wikipedia only if you want to participate in the creation of a high-quality free encyclopedia, not simply because it's the first and only wiki you have heard of. You can share your experiences with us.
  11. No intentional disruption. Please do not give assignments that require students to deliberately add false information to articles. Such activities are considered as vandalism in wikipedia regardless of the intent behind them. This may lead to your entire School IP range getting blocked from editing wikipedia.

Contact persons [edit]

A list of people, by university and town, who are willing to serve as contact people, and can meet others in person to help them set up a course teaching with Wikipedia.

Username Real name University Languages (intermediate+) City/Region Email
User:Jan eissfeldt Jan Eissfeldt University of Leipzig de, en, es Europe, Germany, Leipzig via Wikipedia
User:Guenter_w Günter W. University of Salzburg de, en, (it) Europe, Austria, Salzburg via Wikipedia
User:Piotrus Piotr Konieczny University of Pittsburgh en, pl USA, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh via Wikipedia
User:Spiritia Vassia Atanassova Institute of Information Technologies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences		 bg, en Europe, Bulgaria, Sofia via Wikipedia
User:Pgallert Peter Gallert Polytechnic of Namibia de, en, (af) Africa, Namibia, Windhoek via Wikipedia

and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classroom_coordination#Members.

Current projects [edit]

For university projects as part of the Public Policy Initative, see Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses and Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Spring_2011

Please add new projects at the bottom of this section, and indicate when the projects will end. When a project is completed, archive the information relating to it in one of the subpages listed below at "Past projects". If you need help with this, leave a message on the talk page.

You are invited to add the template {{Educational assignment}} to the talk pages of articles which are created or significantly changed due to an assignment. The template looks like this:

Books-aj.svg aj ashton 01.svg This article was the subject of an educational assignment that ended on 1 January 2008. Further details are available here.

University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany - Translation (Ongoing - SINCE 2009? PLEASE UPDATE) [edit]

This is a short project that has been repeated every semester since summer 2006 in the context of a few translation classes (German to English). These classes are exclusively for students in the English Department; most of them are teacher trainees. During each project period of two to three weeks students work on selecting, translating, proofreading and editing texts. Learning how wiki software and Wikipedia work is also a part of what we do. We'd love to coordinate this work with other groups. –OberMegaTrans (talk) 21:42, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey (Fall 2007-present) [edit]

An assignment was created by Davida Scharf, Director of Reference and Instruction at NJIT's Van Houten Library and tested in both online and face-to-face junior-level technical communication classes taught by Prof. Carol Johnson in the Fall of 2007 and Prof. James Lipuma in 2008 and currently. Students are asked to create a new article or revise an existing one on Wikipedia. They are asked to consider the audience they are addressing, as well as the context, as expressed in branching in and out and categorization, We developed a rubric for assessing student work. Contact us for details. See our presentation at the Merlot Conference in San Jose, California, August 2009. This project is ongoing. In 2010 we were invited to the Wikimedia Foundation for discussions that launched the Outreach Program to Higher Education. Our work was featured in a brochure of case studies in 2012. In Spring 2011, Prof. Theresa Hunt piloted a literature-based Wikipedia assignment in a freshman composition course. In Fall 2012 the librarians in collaboration with several faculty members in various disciplines utilized an assignment that requires students to trace information in a Wikipedia article of their choosing back to the sources cited in order to verify the accuracy and quality of the information and source. In some cases students are editing and improving the entries.

University of Michigan (Ongoing SINCE 2011? PLEASE UPDATE) [edit]

Undergraduate Level Chemistry [edit]

In the winter of 2011 undergraduate chemistry students worked in groups to improve a named reaction page. The pages that were worked on are Appel reaction, Ritter reaction, Jones oxidation. These students copyedited the entry, created an animation illustrating the general mechanism, overviewed the history of the reaction and identified key spectroscopic features. MichChemGSI (talk) 14:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Graduate Level Chemistry [edit]

For a complete list of pages please refer to User:UMChemProfessor In the winter of 2010, students in the graduate course on polymer chemistry (10 students) are adding content to the following sites: Cationic_polymerization, Polyfluorene, Polymer_brush, High Refractive Index Polymers (new site), and Plasma_polymerization. The revised/new sites will be unveiled in April 2011. Questions to UMChemProfessor (talk) 16:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

In the winter of 2011, students in the graduate course on polymer chemistry (30 students) are adding content to the following sites: dynamic mechanical analysis and spectroscopy, gradient copolymers, karl ziegler, RAFT, ferroelectric polymers, chain-growth polymerizations, electroactive polymers, coordination polymers, antimicrobial polymers, and dendrimers (synthesis and applications). The sites will be unveiled in April 2010. Questions to UMChemProfessor (talk) 23:31, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

In the fall of 2009, students in the graduate course in physical organic chemistry (40 students) added content to the following sites: host-guest chemistry, Hammett equation (modifications), tunneling in kinetic isotope effects, strain (chemistry)/transannular strain, Walsh diagrams, salt bridges, cheletropic reactions, hypervalent molecules, A-values, A-1,3-strain, self-healing polymers, and solvents/solvent effects. Questions to User:UMChemProfessor. User:UMChemProfessor (talk) 15:24, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

In Winter 2009, a graduate course in the organic chemistry of macromolecules (12 students) added content to anionic polymerization, gel permeation chromatography, fire-safe polymers (new site), shape memory polymers, step-growth polymerizations, and covalent organic frameworks (new site). Questions to UMChemProfessor (talk) 02:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

In Fall 2008, a graduate course in physical organic chemistry (26 students) added content in the area of transition state theory, asymmetric induction, chiral lewis acid, benson group increment theory, the hammett equation, the taft equation, halogen bonding, hyperconjugation, and pi-interactions. Questions to User:UMChemProfessor (talk) 14:38, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Fall 2009 (Ongoing - see dates below) [edit]

IUPUI Museum Studies Documentation Projects

As part of the IUPUI Museum Studies collection care and management course FA09-IN-MSTD-A416/A516-18435, students have been given the following two assignements that must be completed in Wikipedia.

Collections Management Systems Analysis

Students will analyze three Wikipedia articles, the Smithsonian’s public database (SIRIS), and information on local public sculpture published by Indiana’s Save Outdoor Sculpture (SOS) project. Students will prepare and publish this written analysis using your individual Wikipedia “talk page.” The completed assignment should have a word count of 1,000-1,200 words. Your analysis should include ten internal Wikipedia links, and address conceptual issues for at least three relevant Wikipedia categories.

Final Project

The final project for the class is to write and publish two Wikipedia articles on sculptures contained in or related to IUPUI’s collection. The project has several components: A) Object Selection and Research. B) Drafting and Refining. C) Presentation and Feedback. Students will present their work in progress during class on 10/20, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, and 11/24 (roughly 4 students each day). D) Publishing Article.

Wikipedia articles must be completed by the beginning of class on 12/1. When your articles are finalized, email a link to the instructors and print a copy of each article to turn in. Please note that articles posted on Wikipedia are subject to editing, relocation, and removal—print your article as soon as it is posted.

Outcomes

Students will explore ways in which Wikipedia can be used as a content management system (CMS) to help care for outdoor sculptures. Further, students will explore ways in which Flickr can be used as a digital asset management system.

WikiProject Page

Wikipedia:WikiProject Public art

Fall 2010 [edit]

This project is continuing again for Fall 2010.

As part of the IUPUI Museum Studies collection care and management course FA09-IN-MSTD-A416/A516-18435, students have been given a set of class class assignments that walk them through the basics of Wikipedia and then guide them through the documentation of 42 individual artworks at the Indiana Statehouse.

The graduate students in the class have a leadership roles that are mean to allow each student to take a significant role in making sure the project comes together as a whole.

The final project is the creation of the Indiana Statehouse Public Art Collection.

Spring 2012 [edit]

A survey and research course is working to document a collection of artifacts and artworks at the Madame Walker Theatre Center. As part of this project, students will be working to document the collection and share their findings. More info on MWTC's Blog.

School of Law, Singapore Management University: Constitutional and Administrative Law Wikipedia Project (ongoing; started January 2010) [edit]

This project, which started in January 2010 and has been repeated each year since, is managed by Assistant Professor Jack Tsen-Ta Lee of the School of Law, Singapore Management University. Participants of the project are LL.B. and J.D. students. They are required to collaborate with the members of the groups to which they have been assigned to prepare a Wikipedia article or part of one. The aims of the project are to encourage students to internalize the material covered in the course, as well as to contribute towards producing a body of accurate information about Singapore constitutional and administrative law that is freely available on the Internet. The project page is at User:Smuconlaw.

Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek – Information Competence (2010-2012) [edit]

See also: Wikipedia:School and university projects/Polytechnic of Namibia

First-year students used their sandboxes to either create or improve an article about Southern Africa. Main module objectives were: Acquiring the syntax capabilities to edit Wikipedia, evaluating the reliability of sources, mini-research on a local topic. We restricted students to obviously notable concepts (geography, historic events, political office holders, requested articles). Acceptable work ("pass") was incorporated in main space after the respective course has ended.

This project is temporarily suspended and will not run in 2013. The reason is that we could not manage the fast growth of this course, and the implications this had for the Wikipedia community. The evaluation of the 2012 student work is still backlogged, you can help us if you have some time to spare. --Pgallert (talk) 17:51, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo,Norway (Fall 2006-present) [edit]

Prof. Espen Andersen (Espen) regularly assigns Wikipedia writing as one of several graded assignments for various graduate level classes in Technology Strategy, eBusiness or IT Management (MBA/EMBA/M.Sc.), 3-4 classes per year of 25-60 students. Details of the assignments can be found here for GRA6821 and here for GRA6834. The intent is to teach the students how to behave and contribute in a crowdsourcing environment - and, of course, to make Wikipedia better! The students can contribute in any language version of Wikipedia they choose (most use the Norwegian or English one), but will create a user page listing their contributions, and write a reflection paper towards the end of the course. The idea is that the students do the editing throughout the course, gaining experience as they go. For the more experienced Wikipedians - should there be a problem (copyright violations, non-encyclopedic material, etc.) please address the individual contributor, and escalate to Espen Andersen if undesirable behavior is continued. (These are graduate students of business and problems seldom arise, but once in a while someone misunderstands and pulls a fast one.) Espen Andersen's contact details can be found at his contact web page.

St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, Missouri (Summer 2011 - present) [edit]

See also: Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/HardenPsy101

There are over 1000 psychology-related stubs in WP:PSYCH. Even new psychology students will be capable of improving these articles to a collegiate level. Introduction to Psychology is an introductory overview of the field of psychology. It is an examination of behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, humanistic and biological viewpoints in psychology. The course includes learning principles and applications, motivation, emotions, stress, psychobiology, personality, abnormal behaviors and approaches to therapy. Contact Professor Harden for more information.

University of Hull - Scarborough Campus (UK) - School of Arts & New Media (ongoing) [edit]

Students at the School of Arts & New Media explore the concept of open content and the read/write web while learning about specific aspects of either Digital Performance, Machinima or Cyberpsychology. They do this by creating and/or editing Wikipedia entries about some of the key projects and established areas of interest in their area of study. The coordinating tutor for this work is Toni Sant who has worked with students in the same department, on contributions to existing Wikipedia entries as well as new ones, since 2010. See details of current session.

Universitat Jaume I - Faculty of Humanity and Social Sciences - Universitat Jaume I - E-translating Project [edit]

Second Year students from the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain) will translate selected articles from the English to the Spanish Wikipedia language version in teams. The texts selected are pre-assessed for lexicon and terminology difficult with the aid of ADA. ADELEX ANALYSER. Students will have to attend to a translation commission. The end-result (and reward for both students and teachers/facilitators) is to see their translations published in the Wikipedia article space. Students will assess other translations and will propose corrections.

University of Kent - Attitudes and Social Cognition (Spring 2012 - present) [edit]

Students in the final year module SP612: Attitudes and Social Cognition led by Mario Weick submit an annotated Wikipedia entry as part of their course assignments. The project supports the APS Wikipedia Initiative. A list of contributions can be found here: SP612 (talk · contribs)

Georgia Institute of Technology - Introductory Neuroscience (Spring 2007-present) [edit]

Professor Steve Potter's Introductory Neuroscience class at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA (BMED/BIOL 4752) has been adding and fixing up Wikipedia articles related to neuroscience since 2007. Each student chooses a neuro topic of his or her choice that is a stub or non-existent on Wikipedia, and becomes an expert in that topic across the semester. To do that, students read papers and books, interview other experts, and practice Wikipedia mechanics. These Georgia Tech seniors have contributed hundreds of neuro-related articles to Wikipedia. More info can be found at: User:Professorpotter/GeorgiaTech-IntroNeuro and at Prof. Potter's Teaching Page

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia – Research Methods (Ongoing) [edit]

This semester-long project, running since 2010, provides third year Arts students with an opportunity to undertake research into the lives and histories of Australian subjects. Using traditional documentary research methods the students build a knowledge base to underpin a high quality Wikipedia article on people and organisations whose archives are held in the collecting library of the University of Queensland. I choose the subjects of research and the students work in groups of 4 or 5 in close consultation with me to develop the content for the article. After some weeks of research the students begin working in a sandbox to build the article. It is transferred to the mainspace two or three weeks out from the end of semester and the Wikimedia Australia members were asked to comment on their work. Learning how to work within wiki software and understanding the place of Wikipedia in contemporary knowledge sharing are essential aspects of this project. The students take great pride in their work and the University is happy with the results as well. –Kerry K Kerry K 10:30, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, Maryland (Spring 2013) [edit]

We will be improving the college's Wikipedia page as well as related articles on local topics, such as towns on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. More details will be forthcoming as we sort out our assignments and syllabus. Contact phette23 for more information. The project will end at the end of the Spring semester, in the middle of May.

Saint Louis University Biology (Spring 2013) [edit]

Students in a graduate level Signal Transduction class will create or expand Wikipedia articles related to the course topic. Biolprof (talk) 04:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

York College, City University of New York Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Spring & Summer, 2013) [edit]

Learning I/O Psych by editing Wikipedia! Students in this undergraduate class will be making several small edits to improve existing Wikipedia pages regarding I/O psychology. --Dr Ashton (talk) 03:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Queen Mary, University of London Research Methods (Film) (Spring 2013) [edit]

As part of a second year undergraduate course in Research Methods, students will be spending 6 weeks in small groups, adopting, evaluating and editing an existing Wikipedia page whose subject is a single film. Please contact DrJennyCee for further details. Would be very grateful for support from experienced facilitators! The project will run from January 2012 to mid-February 2012, and will run again in the Fall semester of 2013. DrJennyCee(talk) 13:27 14 January 2012 (GMT)

University of Toronto Mississauga The Rhetoric of Digital and Interactive Media Environments (Winter 2013) [edit]

Description here. Course Page

NCSU - Critical Approaches to Wikipedia, Information, and the Collaborative Construction of Knowledge (Spring 2013) [edit]

Cross-listed as ENG 395 and COM 395 in the spring 2013 semester at NC State University.

Course Description: "Students approach Wikipedia, the free and open online encyclopedia, from media studies and rhetorical perspectives. Includes assessment of popular arguments of credibility, authorship, expertise, and the site's role as information source, as well as critical discussion of collaborative knowledge production, the codification of knowledge, the encyclopedia genre, access and the digital divide, Web 2.0 and participatory culture, systematic bias, and free culture. Assignments take place largely on Wikipedia, developing firsthand experiential understanding informed by and informing class concepts."

Grafton High School YA Novel Improvement Project (Spring 2013) [edit]

As part of the English 9 curriculum taught by Roseclearfield, students improve and (when notable) create pages for young adult novels and other bildungsroman in an effort to reduce teen vandalism of these vulnerable pages, provide students with an authentic writing assignment, and reduce the stigma that Wikipedia should never be used for any purpose in high school. The project will begin on March 5, 2013, and end on May 15, 2013. This project was presented at the AACE-Ed Media Conference in 2009 and at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference in 2012. The project page can be found here.

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, Mexico City Spring 2013 [edit]

Two groups of Medical English are working on various projects in Wikipedia including adding photos, translation of articles, contacting other medical people and more. For more information see my user page Thelmadatter (talk) 03:56, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Readings in Informational Sociology, Hanyang University, Korea, Spring 2013 [edit]

Details of the course are at Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Spring 2013. The course is run by User:Piotrus (acting both as the instructor and Wikipedia ambassador).

Imperial College London Science Communication for Life Sciences (Spring 2013) [edit]

Students will be editing articles on a variety of biological and biochemical topics for a final-year module in Science Communication. User:Polypompholyx

University of Padua, Italy, Educational Technology (from 2009-present) [edit]

Students in the Educational Technology classes create and modify articles in the Italian Wikipedia about learning, training and other topics related to e-learning and Web 2.0. They learn to use Wikipedia as contributors, improving their digital competences on selecting and evaluating reliability of informations. Contact prof. Corrado Petrucco of the Departement of Education. User:Conradpd

Past projects [edit]

2003–2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012

See also [edit]

External links [edit]

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