Wikipedia-based education
Wikipedia-based education refers to the integration of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects into educational settings, where students and educators use these platforms for learning, teaching, and knowledge creation. This approach leverages Wikipedia's vast repository of information and collaborative nature to enhance educational experiences. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia can be used as an open educational resource (OER). Additionally, because the website invites participation by its users, it can also serve as an open educational practice.[1]
Wikipedia is one of the largest and most popular educational websites globally, with over 53 million articles in nearly 300 languages. It serves as a valuable resource for a wide range of topics, from science and history to current events. The Wikimedia Foundation supports educational initiatives that encourage the use of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in classrooms and beyond.[2]
According to a number of researchers, Wikipedia-based education offers unique learning benefits, including the development of digital literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration skills.[3][4] Students enhance their writing and research abilities by contributing to Wikipedia, while also learning to evaluate the reliability of online sources.[5] Furthermore, interacting with Wikipedia as a complex discourse community emphasizes the process through which knowledge is proposed, negotiated, and revised based on user interactions. Wikipedia's unique contributions to knowledge production lie in its collaborative, social practices, where content is generated and interrogated without a controlling editorial staff. This environment fosters critical literacy and active participation, making it a valuable tool for developing skills necessary for navigating open access content in digital spaces.[6][7] Students are motivated, when editing Wikipedia articles, furthermore, by the opportunity to write for a more public audience.[8]
See also
References
- ^ Petrucco, Corrado; Ferranti, Cinzia (2020-12-21). "Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" project". Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society. 16 (4): 38–45. doi:10.20368/1971-8829/1135322. ISSN 1971-8829.
- ^ "Wikimedia in Education". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- ^ Konieczny, Piotr (2016). "Teaching with Wikipedia in a 21st-century classroom: Perceptions of Wikipedia and its educational benefits". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67 (7): 1523–1534. doi:10.1002/asi.23616. ISSN 2330-1635.
- ^ Evenstein Sigalov, Shani; Nachmias, Rafi (2017-11-01). "Wikipedia as a platform for impactful learning: A new course model in higher education". Education and Information Technologies. 22 (6): 2959–2979. doi:10.1007/s10639-016-9564-z. ISSN 1573-7608.
- ^ McDowell, Zachary James; Stewart, Mahala Dyer (2019-08-16). "Student Learning Outcomes with Wikipedia-Based Assignments". The International Journal of Open Educational Resources. 1 (2). doi:10.18278/ijoer.1.2.6.
- ^ Konieczny, Piotr (2012-08-25). "Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later". First Monday. 17 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v0i0.3583. ISSN 1396-0466.
- ^ Reilly, Colleen A. (2011). "Teaching Wikipedia as a mirrored technology". First Monday. 16 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v16i1.2824. ISSN 1396-0466.
- ^ Cummings, Robert E. (2009). Lazy virtues: teaching writing in the age of Wikipedia. Nashville, Tenn: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-1615-2.
