Education/Newsletter/July 2014/Highlights
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Macedonia
Macedonian economics students brainstorm how to improve Wikipedia's fundraising
Macedonian internet marketing students in the Faculty of Economics at Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje learn about Wikipedia and suggest ways to improve its fundraising. (read more→)
Mexico
Literary theory students edit Hispanic literature articles on Spanish Wikipedia at UNAM
Students in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at UNAM learned about the production of encyclopedic discourse and edited the articles on Metaphor, Sociology of reading, and Marxist literary criticism. (read more→)
UK
WM UK's VLE content to be introduced at Wikimania
Wikimedia UK's Virtual Learning Environment on Moodle will be introduced be at the Education Pre-Conference at Wikimania this summer. (read more→)
TWL
Update from The Wikipedia Library
Learn how The Wikipedia Library is supporting Wikipedia users through a partnership with OCLC, a Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program, and a library interns program. (read more→)
Israel
Haifa University students write Wikipedia articles for academic credit
For 3 years, Wikimedia Israel and Haifa University partnered to offer students academic credit to write Wikipedia articles in 20 courses and 5 departments. (read more→)
Czech Republic
Czech education program presented at BarCamp
At a conference about the new unified final exam for Czech public high schools and its future, WM CZ presented writing on Wikipedia as an alternative to traditional essays. (read more→)
WEP
Updates from the Wikipedia Education Program and the Wikipedia Education Collaborative
Floor Koudijs now leads the WMF's Education team and the Wikipedia Education Collaborative (formerly called the Cooperative) will presents its purpose and plans. (read more→)
Misc.
Articles of interest in other publications
Brazilian students edit Portuguese Wikipedia, raising awareness about the Wikipedia Education Program and Wikipedia Zero in South Africa, colleges consider Wikipedia's educational value, academics flirt with former foe: Wikipedia, and The Signpost begins a series about the Wikimedia Global Education Program. (read more→)
Germany
Wikimedia Deutschland's June activities
Wiki Dialog, Geek Girls, School of Machines, Science Hack Day, intro to scrum, digital competencies, open educational resources, and more! (read more→)
UK
WM UK's Education Organiser presents keynote address at International Plagiarism Conference
Wikimedia UK education organiser Dr Toni Sant delivers the keynote address at the 6th International Conference on Integrity and Plagiarism, entitled Student online research and critical thinking: Wikipedia in education. (read more→)
Mexico
Professors trained as part of WikiLearning at ITESM
As part of the Wiki Learning Project at Tec de Monterrey, faculty and staff are trained in the basics of editing Wikipedia and brainstormed ideas for projects, including improving mathematical graphs and using MediaWiki to collaborate across campuses. (read more→)
L&E
Learning & Evaluation to publish quarterly newsletter
The Learning & Evaluation team at the WMF will publish a quarterly newsletter to understand the effectiveness of movement activities. (read more→)