These last couple of months, I’ve been busily working with Seattle design firm WINTR to build the Assignment Design Wizard, a tool to help instructors create great Wikipedia assignments. The beta version of the wizard is now up and running at wizard.wikiedu.org, and my focus has turned to user testing in preparation for the official … Continued
1. Highlights Frank Schulenburg, Sara Crouse, Jami Mathewson, and LiAnna Davis, and board members Diana Strassmann, Karen Twitchell, and Richard Knipel all traveled to London for Wikimania 2014. Wiki Ed played a major role in the Future of Education track at Wikimania. Jami and LiAnna led three Education Pre-Conference workshops and presented in four official … Continued
Today, we kicked off development on Wiki Ed’s first major technology project: the Assignment Design Wizard. This tool, which will be part of wikiedu.org, will provide a way for instructors to design and customize their own Wikipedia classroom assignments, while learning about the best practices we’ve identified over the years. Our goal for the wizard … Continued
Download this RfP as a PDF About Wiki Education Foundation We’re a nonprofit that brings together the worlds of Wikipedia and academia. Our main project currently is the Classroom Program, which helps university professors to run effective Wikipedia editing assignments in their courses. The basic concept is that professors assign students to improve Wikipedia articles … Continued