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The University of California Berkeley's Politics of Piracy Decal Fall 2010 Class taking part in a course that uses Wikipedia
For an overview of Wikipedia in relation to schools, see Wikipedia:Schools FAQ.

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, share your experiences with us and give some feedback to support the optimizing of the school and university projects :)

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[edit] Guidelines

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)


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 entire School IP range getting blocked from editing wikipedia.

[edit] Contact persons

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, Pittsburgh, PA via Wikipedia
User:Spiritia Vassia Atanassova Institute of Information Technologies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences		 bg, en Europe, Bulgaria, Sofia via Wikipedia

and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classroom_coordination#Members.

[edit] Current projects

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.

[edit] University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany - Translation (Ongoing)

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)

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

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. This project has been incorporated into the syllabi of several other professors at NJIT and will be ongoing. See our presentation at the Merlot Conference in San Jose, California, August 2009.

[edit] University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Department of American Studies (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011) (Ongoing)

Freshmen students in Professor Foster's course on American Indian Law, History, and Literature will be expanding and creating new Wiki content related to five major areas of American Indian law and history through small groups. Individuals in each group will focus on particular sections under the major areas. This will be an on-going assignment.

The areas of inquiry are:

1. Indian Country Jurisdiction

2. Supreme Court rulings on Native American Issues

3. Congressional legislation affecting Native Americans

4. Rights Reserved by Native American Tribes under the U.S. Constitution

5. Native American Demographics, Social Statistics and Economic Data

A good example of our past projects is the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act from fall 2008 and Native American disease and epidemics from fall 2009. Feel free to contact Professor Foster in Talk if you have suggestions and advice, as we are all 'noobs' to this process.––Tolfoster (talk) 02:41, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Amherst College (Spring 2011)

Martha Saxton, Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College incorporated Wikipedia into the curriculum of her Women’s History course (1865 to the present) in Spring 2007, Spring 2008 semester and is continuing this project in Spring 2011. Students will participate in improving the gender balance of Wikipedia entries by contributing to the Amherst College Gender Equality Project, an endeavor launched by four students from the Spring 2007 course.


[edit] University of Washington Bothell (Winter 2011)

Students of a senior level course in conservation biology taught by Martha Groom are augmenting and adding pages based on their case study research. This is a continuation of a similar effort done in 2009, and to efforts in two other courses taught multiple times over 2006-2010.

[edit] Simon Fraser University (Fall 2010)

In November and December 2010, nineteen students and one instructor in History 479 ("Change, Conflict and Resistance in Twentieth-Century China: Tiananmen Square") began contributing original content related to the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.

The project page is: Wikipedia:School and university projects/SFU Tiananmen Square Project. Instructor is Oaxacanalia (talk)

[edit] University of Michigan (Ongoing)

For a complete list of pages please refer to User:UMChemProfessor

[edit] Winter 2011

Currently, 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)

[edit] Winter 2010

Currently, 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)

[edit] Fall 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)

[edit] Winter 2009

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)

[edit] Fall 2008

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)

[edit] IUPUI Museum Studies public art documentation project

[edit] Fall 2009

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

[edit] Fall 2010

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.

[edit] Mid Sweden University course about wikis and Wikipedia (Fall 2009 and Summer 2010)

The worlds first university-level course solely devoted to wikis and Wikipedia was given by Mid Sweden University in cooperation with the Swedish local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation during fall 2009, and will also be offered during June-August 2010. The course Wikipedia - authoring, reliability and technology, 7.5 ECTS credit points, is an Internet based distance course within the subject of Informatics. See Press release August 30 2009 and English translation of the syllabus. The language of instruction is Swedish, but the course is open to anyone with a high school grade in a Nordic language. Responsible teacher is User:Mange01.

[edit] The College of Idaho (Winter Session 2010)

Students in Professor Steven S. Maughan's history course, The Terror: Language, Radicalism, and Violence in the French Revolution, 1789-1799, will work to critique and improve biographical entries on notable French Revolutionary figures. Each will create her or his own Wikipedia login ID, will become familiar with wikipedia as a community and as a knowledge resource, and will refine and expand a biographical entry drawing on high-quality scholarly sources.

The assignments, based on templates provided for past Wikipedia course projects, will be completed by mid-Feb. 2010.

[edit] Duquesne University – Shaping the Modern World – Spring 2010

First year students enrolled in the Shaping the Modern World course, section 3, will examine how information is obtained and evaluated. They will write an article, substantially improve an existing stub or start-class article, probably but not necessarily related to a 20th century event. The project is open to involvement from other editors, although it is important to respect the students' need to obtain a grade for their work. Interested parties should contact Auntieruth. Auntieruth55 (talk) 22:49, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

The project page is found at Wikipedia:School and university projects/Shaping the Modern World SP2010.

[edit] Auburn Montgomery – Freshman composition (Spring 2010)

Freshman composition students in Dr. Aaij's class will be asked to write an article, either from a stub or from a request. The resulting article is to be eligible for a Did You Know? nomination.

The project page is found at Wikipedia:School and university projects/Dr. Aaij's Freshman comp. Dr Aaij (talk) 02:16, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] University of Illinois, Psychology (Spring 2010) (Ongoing)

Students in Kara Federmeier's Cognitive Psychophysiology course will be creating or editing pages covering major Event-related brain Potential (ERP) components used to study neural and cognitive functioning. Pages will include the morphological and functional characteristics of each component, describe some of their uses and contributions, and provide references to reputable scientific reviews. Questions to Dr. Federmeier.

[edit] University of Copenhagen Mesoamerica project

This project is managed by User:Maunus. Participants are BA students at the department for Native American Languages and Cultures and the course being taught is Mesoamerican Culture History 1B. Students have been assigned the task of improving wikipedias coverage on the topics of Mesoamerican religion, Mesoamerican calendar, Mixtec civilization, Zapotec civilization and Aztec civilization. Their forcus will be on providing sourced information and additional references to the main articles on these topics. The project will run till june 2010. The project page is at User:Maunus/MESO1b.·Maunus·ƛ· 13:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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

This project 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.

[edit] Ehime University – Local Culture and the Internet – Spring 2010

Students will study how local cultures are represented and promoted on the Internet. Students will look at on the ways Matsuyama and Ehime local culture are represented in English-language web sites, with a particular focus on Wikipedia. Students will learn about the history of Wikipedia, the ideas behind it, and how to use it, and they will learn how to contribute to and create Wikipedia pages. The course is organized by user Icuc2. The project page is found at Wikipedia:School and university projects/Local Culture and the Internet 2010.–Icuc2 (talk) 05:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] New York University – United States Immigration Policy – Spring 2010

Students will contribute articles related to United States immigration policy broadly defined. "U.S. Immigration Policy in Global Perspective" is an undergraduate public policy course that is a part of the Wagner School concentration. Students will learn how to edit and to create Wikipedia pages on subjects of their own choosing. This project is managed by User:tedperl.

[edit] Cal Poly Pomona – Musculoskeletal Injuries – Spring 2010

Students will add to articles related to musculoskeletal injuries in the following topics as chosen by them: Carpal tunnel syndrome, Achilles tendon rupture, Rotator cuff tear, Low back pain, and Anterior cruciate ligament injury. This project is supervised by Scholarchanter (talk) 23:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

[edit] University of Padua, Padua, Italy – Educational Technology, E-learning, Information Literacy – 2009 (ongoing)

The students in the Educational Technology classes create and modify articles in the Italian Wikipedia about on-line tutoring [[1]] 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. The project is managed by professor Corrado Petrucco of the Departement of Education User:conradpd.

[edit] University of Pittsburgh - Global Societies - Summer 2010

The most recent incarnation of a course I am teaching (see previous editions). Details available at Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Summer 2010. Class will start on May 10 and end around mid/late June 2010. –Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:57, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

[edit] University of Maryland - History of Technology - Fall 2010

See also: Wikipedia:School and university projects/University of Maryland

Students in an upper division undergraduate course in the history of technology are required to first critique an existing Wikipedia article on a relevant topic in the history of technology and to share that critique with other students. They must then each draft a substantial revision or addition to an existing article or a new article. This is then reviewed by fellow students and posted to Wikipedia for community reaction and response. This is a repeat of a similar assignment used in the Fall 2009 offering of the same course. The project has been designed and is supervised by the course instructor, Professor Robert Friedel of the Department of History.

[edit] Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek – Information Competence – August/September 2010

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

First-year IT students will use their Sandboxes to either create or improve an article about Southern Africa. Main module objectives are: Acquiring the syntax capabilities to edit Wikipedia, evaluating the reliability of sources, mini-research on a local topic. We will restrict students to obviously notable concepts (places, historic events, political office holders, requested articles). Acceptable work ("pass") will be moved to, or incorporated in, main space. –Pgallert (talk) 11:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Gustavus Adolphus College – Plant Physiology, Entomology – Fall 2010

Students in two different upper-level classes, Plant Physiology and Entomology, are engaged in technical literacy projects using Wikis. In Entomology, students compose a section that they will contribute to an existing Wikipedia article on female sperm storage. Students are provided with a list of possible subtopics and selected references to help them get started. In Plant Physiology, students select a topic that is either non-existent on Wikipedia or one that requires additional information and expansion. Students in both classes will strengthen skills at distinguishing the presentation of information from interpretation, developing and editing Wiki text, and communicating biological content to a lay audience in an engaging manner. Previous unsigned comment added by FlyPusher (talk) at 14:51, 26 August 2010.


[edit] Nanyang Technological University – Language, Technology and the Internet – Autumn 2010

Students in HG252 Language, Technology and the Internet will create or enhance pages relevant to language and technology. They learn to use Wikipedia as contributors improving their knowledge of a subject, their skills in presenting information and an understanding of the reliability of online knowledge. The resulting article should be eligible for a Good Article Nomination. The project is led by Francis Bond from the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. Francis Bond (talk) 16:34, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] University of British Columbia - Food, Nutrition and Health (FNH) 490 - Fall 2010

Students in Food, Food, Nutrition & Health 490 are creating or substantially improving pages relevant to a variety of topics in food, nutrition and health. Course instructor: drbethsnow (talk)

[edit] University of Texas at Austin - Rocks and Minerals (GEO) 416K - Fall 2010

Students are working towards creating a Wikipedia entry for an unusual mineral, for one which Wikipedia has no entry. The entry is developed throughout the semester as different topics regarding mineral properties are discussed. The project is led by Elizabeth Catlos from the Jackson School of Geosciences.

[edit] University of Hull Scarborough Campus - Applied and Interactive Theatre 2 - October/November 2010

Students in their final year of a BA at the School of Arts & New Media are exploring the concept of open content and the read/write web while learning about contemporary performance arts related to applied and interactive theatre. They are doing this by creating and/or editing Wikipedia entries about some of the key practitioners and established works in the area of applied and interactive theatre, with a special focus on specific aspects from Steve Dixon's book Digital Performance (London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007). The coordinating tutor for this assignment is Toni Sant, who, while not new to wikis, is still quite new to Wikipedia in terms of projects like this. Students taking an earlier version of this class in the previous semester under a different tutor contributed to existing Wikipedia entries as well as new ones, including: Intima Virtual Base, Critical Art Ensemble, and Electronic_Disturbance Theater, which surprisingly still hasn't been merged with Electronic_Disturbance_Theatre.

[edit] University of Pittsburgh - Freshmen Seminar: In the City composition course - Oct/Nov 2010

The goal of the assignment is for each group of students to chose an underdeveloped or missing article on Wikipedia, related to Pittsburgh, and improve it during the second half of the semester.

The project page can be found here User:Llh19/pittsburghcityseminar Instructor: User:Llh19

[edit] Georgetown Day High School - Global Studies Project - November 2010

A small Assignment aiming to teach one section of 9th graders about the importance of reliable sources and verification by discussing and possibly editing a Wikipedia article on new imperialism. Instructor: Evelyn Schwartz

[edit] Southern Lehigh Middle School- American Government and Civics, 8th Grade - Nov, 2010 through Jan 2011

The purpose of the assignment is to increase students knowledge in specific topics that have been discussed in the classroom by participating in the process of editing articles within Wikipedia that are associated with their studies of American government and civics. Contents for the project will be up to date shortly, being a subpage of Jmfullerton (talk) 18:18, 16 December 2010 (UTC). Until then details are listed at https://wikiedit.wikispaces.com/.

[edit] Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy- Modern Jewish History classes, 12th Grade - Nov-Dec, 2010

The students in the Jewish History class are attempting to further their knowledge of Jewish artifacts and to increase the database of Jewish history on Wikipedia. The students will collaborate to create Wikipedia articles about Jewish history. An essential part of the midterm project is that students will be given the opportunity to edit each others articles.

[edit] 7th Basic Ornithology Course, Pune, India

The 7th Basic Ornithology Course, is being conducted from end-December 2010 to mid-February 2011 by the Ela foundation and Zoology department, Abasaheb Garware College of Arts and Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra, India. The course is an extra-mural certificate course for the general public.


AshLin (talk) 07:21, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

[edit] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Spring 2011)

An assignment for the undergraduate INLS 200 (Retrieving and Analyzing Information) at the School of Information and Library Science, taught by Phillip M. Edwards (User:Pmedward), is scheduled during Spring Semester 2011. The basic assignment is to create a new topic or revise an existing topic on Wikipedia, and drafts of the students' articles were also used as the focus of two peer review activities. The assignment was graded using a rubric based on Wikipedia:Featured article criteria, and the learning outcomes from the course included students being able to:

Identify and select information sources that are appropriate for answering research and personal questions, taking into account the needs of the searcher (or someone the searcher is working for), the capabilities and limitations of particular sources, and the intended uses of the information being retrieved; Clarify and refine search queries and strategies based on the (real-time) feedback received from search tools; Critically evaluate information sources for quality/accuracy/credibility; Synthesize search results into a form that others with similar needs can use as a resource; Reflect upon their attitudes and practices for the purposes of self-assessing their performance as information-savvy citizens.

This project will be running from 10 January 2011 to 27 April 2011, and the complete assignment description and rubric are also available for reference. This project was also active during Spring Semester 2009.

Pmedward (talk) 17:08, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany (Summer semester 2011)

This is a project involving advanced Legal English courses in the MA program Commercial Law at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz taught by Prof. Stephanie Swartz-Janat Makan in the Summer Semester 2011. It will be carried out both with full-time LLM students as well as with professionals doing a part-time LLM study course at our university. While learning more about the common law system and expanding their English legal vocabulary, they will be asked to contribute to Wikipedia, first by editing an article of their choice and then by creating a new article or expanding on an existing one. There will be individual as well as group contributions, and the final grade is based on a portfolio handed in at the end of the semester with proof of both offline as well as online contributions. The project will take place over the course of 12 and 15 weeks and each assignment must be fulfilled within the given time period in order to receive credit. For full details, see University_of_Applied_Sciences,_Mainz,_Germany_-_LLM_English_Project

[edit] University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany (Summer semester 2011)

This is a project involving an advanced Business English course in the full-time MA Business program at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz taught by Prof. Stephanie Swartz-Janat Makan in the Summer Semester 2011. While expanding both their academic and business-oriented vocabulary, students will be asked to contribute to Wikipedia, first by editing an article of their choice and then by creating a new article or expanding on an existing one. There will be individual as well as group contributions, and the final grade is based on a portfolio handed in at the end of the semester with proff of both offline as well as online contributions. The project will take place over the course of 15 weeks and each assignment must be fulfilled within the given time period in order to receive credit. For more details see: MA Business English Project

[edit] Boston College Biology (Spring 2011)

As a part of the BI481, Introduction to Neuroscience course at Boston College, students are assigned the task of improving selected Neuroscience stubs. The Society for Neuroscience has recently begun an initiative to update and improve incomplete neuroscience related articles here on Wikipedia. The students in this course will play an important role in this initiative through this assignment.

There will be approximately 22 groups of 3 students each. Each student will have a separate Wikipedia account, and each group will significantly expand upon an existing incomplete article (stub). They will be expected to expand their article to the level as close to Good Article as they can.

Supervisors: I, Joseph Burdo will take care of introducing students to Wikipedia and ensuring they and the project are working within the bounds of Wikipedia guidelines. The full project page is found here.

Important dates: The project will begin on Friday, January 28th, 2011, and end on Friday, April 29th, 2011.

[edit] Lincoln School Costa Rica

Researching Renerable Energy Sources in Costa Rica as part of 6th grade PBL.
Supervisors: I, User:ScienceMsG will take care of introducing students to Wikipedia and ensuring they and the project are working within the bounds of Wikipedia guidelines which can be found here

Project End Date March 2011 Wikipedia:School and university projects/Renewable Energy Resources Costa Rica

[edit] La Metro, Design and Audiovisual Communications School (Fall 2011)

As a part of the Social Communication course at La Metro, Design and Audiovisual Communications School, students are assigned the task of improving or creating selected Communications related articles.

There will be approximately 15 groups of 2 students each. They will be expected to expand or create their article to the best level as close as they can in order to approve the subject. Instructor: User:nicolas.longo

[edit] Durham School of the Arts YA Novels Project (Spring 2011)

As part of the English I curriculum taught by Ms. Garvoille, students will be improving and (when notable) creating pages for young adult novels and other bildungsroman in an effort to reduce teen vandalism of these vulnerable pages, as well as to provide students with an authentic writing assignment. The project will begin on February 7, 2011, and end on March 9, 2011. This project was presented at the AACE-Ed Media Conference in 2009. The project page can be found here: User:Roseclearfield/Durham_School_of_the_Arts_YA_Project_Page.

[edit] University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering, Biology for Engineers Wikipedia Project (Spring 2011)

In this class project, 15 teams of 7-8 first-year engineering students are expected to contribute a new article or substantially extend an existing article in the areas of biology, biomolecular engineering or bioengineering. The suggested, although not mandatory, focus of the articles is cellular and molecular biology, biomolecules, metabolism and their applications to engineering. Teams are expected to use peer-reviewed scientific literature as their primary source of information. Each article will be peer-reviewed twice by two other teams. Teams are expected to incorporate suggestions from these reviews to improve their article and post a final version by May 10, 2011.

[edit] Nature Conservation Foundation Wikipedia initiative to improve articles on Indian wildlife/conservation 2011

Starting with a wiki-workshop being coordinated by User:Prashanthns during their Annual Refresher on February 28, 2011 at BR Hills in South India, scientists and students at Nature Conservation Foundation plan to improve articles on Indian Wildlife through better referencing, improving and updating information, adding distribution maps and uploading photographs from their fieldwork onto Wikimedia Commons. This will be an ongoing event through 2011. If participation is good and articles do get improved, it is likely to be continued. For full project details and follow-up, visit Wikipedia:School and university projects/Nature Conservation Foundation - Improvement drive on articles on Indian wildlife/forests

[edit] Past projects

2003–2008 • 2009 • 2010

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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