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There have been many successful cases of using Wikipedia in the classroom. Here we highlight a wide range of course and assignment types, including major article-writing assignments both with and without support from the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, smaller assignments, and atypical assignments such as the creation of images to illustrate articles.
[edit] Recent courses supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program
These are exemplar courses highlighting a range of different approaches for running a Wikipedia assignment. For a full list of on-going and previous courses supported by the ambassador program, see the courses page on Wikipedia.
- Federal Indian Law and Policy at Montana State University, Bozeman—a mixed class of undergraduates and graduate students. The graduate students began with a collaborative literature review that identified for potential topics and sources for the undergraduates. Then the students chose topics based on the gaps in Wikipedia coverage identified through the literature review, with graduate students offering research guidance to the undergraduates.
- Public Roles in Private Markets at Boston University—a standard undergraduate course plan. After preliminary Wikipedia exercises, students formed groups of 1–4 members each, chose topics with the assistance of a Wikipedia Ambassador, created sandbox drafts, made them live, and then sought feedback and revised their work.
- Environment Law at University of San Francisco—A straightforward course plan condensed into just four session, for a graduate class that met just four times, once per week for four weeks.
- Cyberlaw at UC Berkeley—a course system for law school courses that has gone through 5 cycles as of May 2011. At the outset, each student signs up to write a non-existent article (on a topic identified ahead of time by the instructor), and also signs up to review the articles of two classmates.
[edit] Other courses supported by ambassadors
- Politics of Piracy at UC Berkeley—a student-run "DeCal", in which Wikipedia was used not just as a focus of assignments but also as the main course management system. This gave students a chance to become familiar with how to use and edit Wikipedia well before their main article projects began.
- Regional Planning and Design at Louisiana State University—a graduate course in which students design graphics to better illustrate Wikipedia articles. The images were listed and discussed on the course talk page.
[edit] Great courses from before the Wikipedia Ambassador Program
For a fuller list of recent and past courses, see the school and university projects page and the course archives on Wikipedia.
[edit] See also
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