Looking at the next five years/Education workshop summary

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People we are or could be working with (and recent examples)

Higher education

Lecturers

• Reached through institutions and learned societies, e.g. Geological Society workshop

Support staff (including librarians, learning support staff, staff developers)

• A residential course for learning and teaching staff, as part of JISC/ Learning Foundation for HE’s “Changing the Learning Landscape” programme, included a workshop given by Wikimedia UK

Learner groups

• Student Wikipedia societies at Imperial College and Cambridge

Education researchers

• Presentation to BDRA, University of Leicester, June 2012

Management

• Presentation to PVCs & other senior management at University of Hertfordshire, April 2012

Sector bodies

• JISC DI team training workshop

Scholarly societies & GLAMs

• Wellcome Library expressed an interest in supporting educational projects (Martin P's meeting with psychology-related partners in Manchester)

Education journalists

• Interview in Times Higher Education, September 2012

Suggestions

• Policymakers, “Anyone with prestige and money”
• Online communities, e.g. P2PU, WikiEducator, MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) providers

Schools

• Add more here!

Adult education / Lifelong learning

• Presence at NIACE /BBC Innovating Learning conference, December 2012
• Suggestion: U3A (University of the Third Age)
• We can work with this sector in a networked way: does not have to be top-down.

Professional education

• Worked with University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to deliver a workshop for staff in both Wikipedia editing and critical evaluation, September 2012

Questions for the next five years

What will the Education headlines be in the Wikimedia UK annual report for 2018?

• Free, learner-created textbooks now available through Wikimedia project for a wide variety of subjects, thanks in large part to work done in UK education institutions.
• We're still here! (The education programme)

Who in the Education sector should we be working with over the next 5 years?

• Lecturers and their sector bodies
• FE as a step towards Adult and Community Learning
• International collaborations with a UK partner: work within the UK to advance Wikimedia’s global mission.
• High-impact institutions
• HEIs who offer Work/Industry Experience on degree programmes or module/s.

Who should we be training and what sort of support should we provide for trainers in the Education sector?

• Teaching Assistants in universities
• Cascade approach: document our practices in a way that allows them to be transferred
• Use existing professional networks, e.g. HE Academy
• Create a social enterprise for education
• Provide external accreditation through a Framework for Learning Resources

Which activities should we focus on (and expand) as a priority list? Are there other activities we should consider introducing?

• Incentives for academics, prestige
• Target existing supporters; publicise their successes
• Student-led events
• Encourage appropriate tools
  • Use Wikidata to educate people about linked data
• Courses to address the digital divide: give people access to basic technology who would not normally have access

Wikimedia UK education projects

Annual Conference — Campus Ambassadors – Student Societies — Schools — Committee — VLE