Education/Newsletter/March 2018


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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018

In This Issue


Featured Topic

Education Programs Itinerary

From the Community

Animated science educational videos in Basque for secondary school student

Beirut WikiClub: Wikijourney that has enriched our experiences

Students of the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade edit Wikipedia for the first time

The role of Wikipedia in education - Examples from the Wiki Education Foundation

Multilingual resource for Open education projects

Wikipedia: examples of curricular integration in Portugal

From the Education Team

Resources and Tips to engage with Educators

Education Session at WMCON 2018


Featured Topic


A short guide for new Education Program leaders is up for discussion. Please comment and improve! read more...


From the Community


The Education Program in the Basque Wikipedia has secured a commitment to release a considerable number of video licenses, including those put together by the Elhuyar Foundation. We have uploaded over 32 animation clips devised for the scientific series Teknopolis, and we are now working on embedding them in the relevant different articles. This series aired in a Basque public channel is the first one to be released on a Creative Commons license. read more...


This is an inspirational story of a teacher who could gather her students around the idea of Wikipedia. read more...


Within the Center for Scientific and research work at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, a workshop on editing Wikipedia was organized for the first time. read more...


Teaching critical thinking, digital literacy, and academic writing with Wikipedia with resources from the Wiki Education Foundation. read more...


Take the opportunity to reuse and adapt this open resource for planning and communicating OER-projects. read more...


Wikipedia, an open educational resource (OER) par excellence, can and should be integrated curricularly into elementary or basic education and higher education. read more...


From the Education Team


A new space to share your recommended tools and tips to convince and collaborate with educators is available! read more...


There will be an Education Session at the Wikimedia Conference. If you're attending WMCON, you can sign-up! read more...



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