Looking at the next five years/Education workshop summary
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People we are or could be working with (and recent examples)[edit | edit source]
Higher education[edit | edit source]
- 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
- Management
- Presentation to PVCs & other senior management at University of Hertfordshire, April 2012
- Sector bodies
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Policymakers, “Anyone with prestige and money”
- Online communities, e.g. P2PU, WikiEducator, MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) providers
Schools[edit | edit source]
- Add more here!
Adult education / Lifelong learning[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
What will the Education headlines be in the Wikimedia UK annual report for 2018?[edit | edit source]
- 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?[edit | edit source]
- 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?[edit | edit source]
- 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?[edit | edit source]
- 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 |