Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
7-1-2020
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors describe the learning experience and goals of a class assignment to write content for Wikipedia about women in science and technology fields. The authors, a university professor and two librarians, collaboratively developed this assignment to allow students to engage in rigorous research and contribute to the visibility of women scientists by writing content for the web. The authors chose the Wikipedia platform as the means to make the students work openly available because of its ubiquity and the potential for student work to make an important impact. The assignment, used in two iterations of the course, was designed to provide students not only with a hands-on experience on working on the open web, but also with tools to assess critically the uses and abuses of open access platforms.
Keywords
education, higher, library instruction, Wikipedia, academic libraries
Publication Title
Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Koziura, A., Starkey, J., & Rabinovich-Fox, E. (2020). Teaching Wikipedia: A Model for Critical Engagement with Open Information. In Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations.