OER Service Digital Skills Events
The OER Service runs a wide range of workshops and events as part of the University's Digital Skills programme. Our up and coming events are listed below, and you can find a full list of workshops we offer here: OER Service Digital Skills. If you would like us to come to your school or college to run a session tailored to your requirements, please contact us at open.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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OER in the Curriculum: Teaching with Wikipedia
This event will showcase best practice teaching with Wikipedia from working with course programmes at the University of Edinburgh over the last 7 years along with exemplars from other UK universities: https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/
You will need to create a Wikipedia account in advance in order to take part.
Demystifying the process behind such assignments, attendees will have the opportunity to find out more about how assignments can be conducted in their own field. Too often Wikipedia is framed as something to be avoided, to be “consumed at your peril”. At the University of Edinburgh we flip this on its head, and see Wikipedia as learning technology, reimagining it away from something passively consumed to something our staff and students can positively contribute to, to improve global understanding on the most public of digital platforms as active engaged digital citizens, and gain a lot from as a teaching & learning experience as a result.
In a recent survey 97% of instructors have said they would teach with Wikipedia again while Wiki Education assignments have also been shown to improve student writing and the learning & teaching within the curriculum. Importantly, students are motivated to communicate their scholarship in a real-world application of teaching & learning for an audience of not just one, their tutor, but a worldwide audience of millions. Sharing knowledge, building understanding. For the common good.
Main Programme:
16.00-16.05 Housekeeping and Welcome.
16.05-16.20 Setting up assignments.
16.20-16.40 Editing practical and examples of past assignments.
16.40-17.00 Creating a worklist of articles to create/edit.
“Historically, knowledge has been concentrated in the hands of the few. Marginalised groups’ histories and perspectives have been excluded by structures of power and privilege. Wikipedia revolutionises this model, as the world’s largest, free, collaboratively-sourced encyclopedia.” (Wikimedia 2020)
During the pandemic, a time when many have felt disconnected and powerless, this presentation will showcase stories of student empowerment; providing exemplars of how staff and students have engaged with, and been motivated by, researching and publishing their scholarship online in a real-world application of their teaching and learning.
Venue: Room 1.08, First Floor, Main Library, George Square (Central Area)
Bookings via Event Bookings
