Dear Felipe,
thank you for sharing interesting information with us. It all sounds very promising. One thing that caught my attention was the 'thrilling interest' to participate in the sessions. How do you think you get their attention? How did you advertise the sessions and what did you talk about during them?
I would be very happy to keep in touch with you,
with regards
Vojtech Dostal,
coordinator of the Czech Ambassador Program
("Students Write Wikipedia" - http://ambasadorstvi.wikimedia.cz)
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Od: "Felipe Ortega"
Komu: "[email protected]" , Teachers Wikipedia
Datum: 25.05.2012 17:29
Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia in higher education: progress inSpain
Hello all.
I would like to report on some initiatives and ongoing projects that we have
been conducting this academic year in Spain, from our local Wikimedia Chapter,
regarding the use of Wikipedia in higher education. Several members of
Wikimedia-España have delivered courses, seminars and practical workshops on
Wikipedia editing, using Wikipedia in higher education courses, and Wikipedia
participation from libraries, archives and museums (many libraries are in
universities). Overall, more than 10 sessions have taken place all over Spain.
In addition, there have been similar initiatives and projects coordinated by
Amical in Catalonia.
In many of these sessions, there has been a thrilling interest from
faculties to attend, sometimes running out of free seats in less than
24h after the announcement of sessions. In fact, we are already identifying volunteers from our local chapter members to help with this dissemination and training sessions, so that we can scale up effectively as new universities get on board.
We have also produced content for this sessions in Spanish. As an example,
these are the links for a workshop at University of Salamanca in March:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taller-edicion-wikipedia-USAL.pdf
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:GlimmerPhoenix/Taller_USAL
As a result, we are starting to see new promising projects. More specifically:
- WikiUSAL, a new 'Wikipedia club' with students and faculties of Univ. of Salamanca.
Several teachers are already preparing plans to incorporate Wikipedia in their courses
for the next academic course (starting September 2012). This will be articulated by an
teaching innovation project at USAL: "Wikipedia as a learning tool".
http://diarium.usal.es/wiki
- Two professors at University Pablo Olavide in Seville (Biology) and
University of Pais Vasco (Physics) are also planning to incorporate Wikipedia
tasks in their courses. In fact, in the first case they were already doing so
without support (there may be multiple other cases that we are still
discovering).
- At University Rey Juan Carlos (URJC, my home) we are also preparing for the
next course a proposal for a teaching innovation project, following the same
lines of the USAL initiative. We also intend to integrate participation from
different departments (Computer Science, Journalism, Medicine and Sociology).
In summary, we are quite happy to see this progress, and we will continue to
help raising new initiatives step by step. Looking forward to meeting some of
you at the next Wikimania 2012 in Washington, and share some experiences and
suggestions to keep up the good work.
Kind regards,
Felipe Ortega.
Board member for Higher Education and Universities.
Wikimedia España.
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