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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Teaching with Wikipedia: What do I need to know first?
In this session, open to all University of Edinburgh staff, we will discuss best practice from three recent Wikipedia assignments at the University of Edinburgh and outline the steps that would be involved in running a Wikipedia assignment.
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 including:
- an overview of Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines;
- how the new Visual Editor interface has made editing Wikipedia as easy as blogging with WordPress;
- how to create worklists for students to create/improve articles in their field of interest;
- how to manage assignments using the Dashboard platform and/or Project pages.
- how to tidy up articles at the completion of the assignment (linking to & from other relevant pages, adding categories, linking to relevant WikiProjects etc.)
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. NB: Watch Your OERs will outlive you:(video) for a fuller picture.
Bookings via MyEd: http://edin.ac/2zsFCRp
