Education/Newsletter/August 2014/Highlights
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Wikimedia Taiwan is working to establish an education program with the country's colleges. (read more→)
Wikimedia Sverige is designing open badges for participants in Swedish education activities. (read more→)
Wikimedia Deutschland releases papers on diversity in Wikipedia, produces a video from the Digital Competencies conference, announces the program and partners of the Open Educational Resources Conference 2014, and more. (read more→)
Armenian students once again gather in the city of Vanadzor at a camp aimed at improving Armenian Wikipedia and beat their record of 2000 articles improved or created from the first camp. (read more→)
Wikimania
Education at Wikimania
Education was a major theme at Wikimania 2014 in London, with an entire pre conference dedicated to it along with various presentations in the main event. (read more→)
For several years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on the VisualEditor, a program with the purpose making editing Wikipedia easier. What does this mean for students and their teachers? (read more→)
Wikimedia Nederland plans three education pilot projects for 2014/2015. (read more→)
U.S. & Canada
U.S. and Canada Program Spring 2014 term wrap-up
The Wiki Education Foundation completed its first full term supporting classroom editing assignments, with 65 courses adding the equivalent of 7,300 printed pages to English Wikipedia. (read more→)
Media
Articles of interest
A report from the Times Higher Education on medical students getting credit for their contributions to Wikipedia. A profile in the New Indian Times of 3 Indian contributors to the Wikimedia movement: an engineer, a developer, and a university student. Coverage of Armenia's leading mobile carrier talking with high school students at Wikimedia Armenia's Wiki Camp. And a tribute to the Ukrainian college student named Wikipedian of the Year. (read more→)