EduWiki Conference 2013

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Wikimedia UK education projects

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

EduWiki Conference 2013 at the Future Inns in Cardiff Bay Friday 1 - Saturday 2 November 2013 Convened by Toni Sant: toni.santwikimedia.org.uk for WMUK Contact: educationwikimedia.org.uk, +44 (0)7885 980 536 Hashtag: #EduWiki || Facebook event page (please share)

Cardiff Bay at night

View the EduWiki 2013 flyer

EduWiki Conference 2013 is the second annual conference organised by Wikimedia UK focusing on Education projects.

Please contact Toni Sant (Wikimedia UK's Education Organiser) if you have any personal questions or concerns, otherwise feel free to comment on the talk/discussion page.

About EduWiki 2013

Wikimedia UK is the national charity supporting the eleven Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, and Wikinews) in their mission to give free knowledge to everyone in the world. EduWiki is its annual education conference, bringing staff from universities, schools and other sectors together with wiki contributors. Together we explore how Wikimedia sites can support innovative, active, low-cost activities for learners, promoting subject skills and general information literacy. As well as these educational objectives, our collaborations can advance the goal of global, freely-available lifelong learning.

Wikipedia and its sister sites are increasingly used as platforms for educational assignments, in the UK and internationally. The conference is a chance to discover opportunities; report lessons learned; and explore how the free, open, learner-centred ethos of Wikimedia overlaps current trends in formal education.

Themes addressed in the conference include:

Plagiarism and the "Wikipedia problem" Open resources and open practice Learners as producers

Design and assessment of on-wiki assignments Digital literacy and wiki-literacy Wikipedia for younger audiences

Learning analytics Open education and open access to research Language education and writing skills

See the Times Higher Education article "Delete the Wiki Worries and get Close to the Edit" for more background.

Conference Schedule

Instructions for using the conference mobile app.

The conference begins on Friday morning with registration at 10am and ends on Saturday at 5:30pm.

Highlights include:

• Keynotes

Invited keynote speakers are: Gareth Morlais (Welsh Government) - Rod Dunican (Wikimedia Foundation) - David White (Oxford University)

• Presentations
• Workshops
• The 2nd Cardiff Wikipedia Meetup

This will take place on Friday 1 November at 6:30pm to coincide with the EduWiki Conference, and the meetup organisers are looking forward to seeing as many conference delegates as possible attend this meetup to mingle with Cardiff's Wikimedia community.

A detailed conference schedule is available here.

Mobile app

We're also trailing a new mobile conference app, which is being considered for use at Wikimania 2014. All attending delegates are encouraged to download the app ahead of the conference. The app is available for Android and iOS. Full instructions available here.

Location

Panorama of Cardiff Bay, location of EduWiki Conference 2013

map

Future Inn Cardiff

Hemingway Road

Cardiff

Glamorgan

CF10 4AU

Tel (venue): 02920 487 111

Car

Exit the M4 on junction 33 sign posted Cardiff West. Follow the signs for A4232 Central Cardiff and remain on this road for approximately five miles until you reach the tunnel. Go through the tunnel bearing left at the roundabout, and then keep left at the mini roundabout driving into the Capital FM Centre. Immediately turn left driving straight ahead, Future Inn will be on your right hand side.

Public Transport

Nearest Train Station – Cardiff Bay. Cardiff's main train station, Cardiff Central, is 1.3miles away. There is a direct train connection to Cardiff Bay from there (10-20 train journey)

Nearest Bus Stop – traveling long distance by coach, you would travel to Cardiff Central [1]. From there you can take a local bus going to Millennium Centre (5 minutes walk away from Futures Inn).

Taxi

A journey from central Cardiff to Futures Inn would be about £6.

Air

The nearest airport is Cardiff Airport - [2]. You can also choose to fly via London and take a train from there.

Accommodation

Conference delegates need to make their your own arrangements for accommodation, if needed. We have complied a guide to accommodation in and around the conference venue for the convenience of delegates. Listed prices and indicative quotes we received several weeks before the event, and in some cases availability may also be limited.

Feedback from the previous EduWiki

• "I was delighted to be asked to speak, but I really went to learn, and learn I did. This semi-skeptic was won over."
• "looking back it was easily the most thought-provoking event I have been to for some time."
• "There were interesting people there, the food was good, the sun shone, and it was quite a success."
• "Once again, thanks and I look forward to the continued growth and hopefully my useful participation in what has to be a truly exciting effort towards an informed global community." - anonymous evaluation
• "The relationship between OERs, open access, open academic practices and Wikipedia were very strong in the discussions, alongside issues surrounding digital literacy as well as citation and referencing practices."
• "Overall, it was a very encouraging coming-together of Wikipedians and educators"

See EduWiki_Conference_2012#Reflections_and_coverage or look at the (extremely positive) summary of feedback forms.

Further information

• Registration is now open.
• /Schedule is very close to final version.
• /role planning is set.
• /Publicity

Reflections and coverage

• Reflections on the EduWiki 2013 Conference - Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)
• EduWiki Conference 2013 convenes in Cardiff - WMUK blog

Comments from participants

I wanted to thank wikimedia UK for organizing EduWiki 2013. I think they did a fantastic job with the conference, managed to get the right people there, opened doors to make things happen and left me motivated to continue to do educational outreach for Wikinews. Combine that with good wifi and decent food, I cannot wait for next year's conference. My only request would be less rain. - Laura Hale

I just want to get back to you in order to thank you for the great Education conference you all organized. I will take home a lot of inspiration and try to include some of the points - together with Charles - in our planned education activities in Switzerland for the next year. Furthermore I appreciate a lot that we got a slot to present KIWIX in front of all attendants. All the best - and hope to see you soon. - Muriel Staub

Thanks to @wikimedia for a great #EduWiki conference. Even more motivated to start a monthly Wiki Wednesday meet up on our #Lampeter campus - Kate Fisher

I'm now convinced of the importance of Wikipedia in open educational practices." - Brian Kelly

Thank you to Wikimedia UK, and all the contributors for organising this event. All the presentations were engaging and the attendees and contributors a great bunch of people!