Education/Newsletter/September 2016/Highlights
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Wikimedia Armenia organized its 4th wiki seminar for teachers. (read more→)
Members of the User Group Wikimedia in Brazil interviewed Robert E. Cummings, editor of Wiki Studies, a new journal on the intersection of Wikipedia and higher education. (read more→)
The eighth term of WEP courses has ended and the ninth term of WEP has started in the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University with great success. (read more→)
Egyptian students celebrated the end of their 8th term on Wikipedia at Cairo University. (read more→)
Wikimedia User Group Greece starts free online wiki training for educators. (read more→)
Visitors to a major Russian Internet Conference learned that there are other Wikimedia projects in addition to Wikipedia. (read more→)
Israel
Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
Wikipedia was presented as a teaching and learning tool in medical education at the IAMSE Medical Education Conference. (read more→)
An interview with Yotam Svoray, a high school student who serves as an "official" Wikipedia guide to younger students. (read more→)
Through Wikimedia multimedia projects, Mexican university students give back to society. (read more→)
An outcomes report about “Wikipedia: Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, a for-credit, cross-campus, elective course dedicated to contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University in Israel. (read more→)
A new national training program for educators developed by the National Agency of Education includes a module on the Wikipedia Education Program. (read more→)
Psychology students create articles on major psychology theories and theorists on Turkish Wikipedia at Uludag University, Bursa. (read more→)
Seven Senegalese schools and the regional office of education of Foundiougne (serving 33 junior high schools and 7 high schools), will be testing the Kiwix offline Wikipedia during the 2016-2017 school year. These schools are in cities with limited access to the Internet and in small towns with little or no electricity, no cell phone coverage, and no Internet. (read more→)
WMF and WikiEd Develop New Dashboard for Education Courses on Wikimedia Projects. (read more→)
News about Wikipedia in education in different publications around the world. (read more→)