Education/Newsletter/November 2020

This Month in Education
Volume 9 • Issue 11 • November 2020

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This year, Wikimedia Serbia celebrates 15 years since the launch of the Wikipedia Education Program in Serbia. So far, more than 70 schools and faculties in Serbia have used Wikipedia in teaching. Serbia was the first country in which the use of Wikipedia began in the school read more...

During October, four online training programs were held by Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group for high school students across Kosovo. The training programs are a continuation of the collaboration with KEC (Kosovo Education Center), which started earlier this year. Eight more training programs on wiki projects are expected to be delivered by the end of the year. read more...

This year we met 9 Wikimedians as a part of our Wikimedians highlight series, these volunteers have identified many ways to use Wikimedia projects in education. Meet our community members from India, Poland, Czech Republic, Ghana, Macedonia, Indonesia, Canada, Ukraine and Tunisia read more...

The article about wiki-education which has been just published in one of the top science ethnological journals in Poland, presents the general idea of Wiki-education and the situation of educational programs based on Wiki(p)media tools and capabilities in four countries read more...

Wikimedia Serbia has organized the first Online EduWiki Camp during which the participants had the opportunity to learn about the programs and projects of Wikimedia Serbia, but also to improve the skills that will help them in further volunteer engagement in Wikimedia Serbia. The camp, which was held through the Zoom platform on October 24, 25, and 31, was attended by 14 students from all parts of Serbia read more...

From 19-23 November, the Education Program of Wikimedia Mexico celebrated the Open Access Week 2020. We joined this initiative to foster structural equity and inclusion in the purposeful opening of the digital world. To follow this approach, we planned educational activities around topics relevant to the context we're living in during this pandemic read more...

Highlights from the last 10 years of the Wikipedia Student Program in the United States and Canada. read more...

On October 24, 2020, during the Open Access Week, the education department of Wikimedia Polska organized a one-day online conference entitled Cooperation in digital education read more...



A summary of what the Education Team worked on and accomplished in 2020 read more...


Nos Jardins is a new project launched in fall 2020. It proposes training to photo professionals and amateurs professionals with the aim to increase their skills in both photography and free culture read more...

Wikimedia Armenia has been organizing Wikipedia courses for teachers for six years. These courses have a twofold influence on teachers and their students making Wikipedia a tool to be educated and to educate others read more...




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