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 Booking is open until 20 October 2013 - REGISTER HERE Contact: educationwikimedia.org.uk, +44 (0)7885 980 536 Hashtag: #EduWiki

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.

Feel free to contact Toni Sant (Wikimedia UK's Education Organiser) if you have any personal questions or concerns, otherwise feel 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

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

A detailed schedule is taking shape here. The main programme is in place, but we're still tweaking some elements until 20 October.

Panorama of Cardiff Bay, location of EduWiki Conference 2013

Location

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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.

Nearest Bus Stop – City Hall [1]

Air

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

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.

Scholarships

There is a limited budget to support scholarships for the conference. These are mostly aimed at supporting speakers participating in the event (please contact Wikimedia UK for details). We may be able, however, to support some delegates from education organisations, and key members of the Wikimedia community - please let us know by Monday 7 October 2013 at noon BST.

Please contact Daria Cybulska (daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk) to apply, including:

• the estimate costs that you would require for support
• outline of your engagement within education sector
• benefit you would bring to the conference

We are able to provide financial support to cover:

• Registration fee
• 2 nights accommodation cost up to £140
• travel costs up to £150

Update

The contents of this page will change considerably over the coming days/weeks, now that the venue has been booked/confirmed. Please check back and/or feel free to contribute ideas on the talk page.

Latest developments

• Registration is now open - until 20 October 2013
• /Schedule
• /Accommodation
• /role planning
• Call for editathon/hackaton ideas - deadline: Friday 6 September 2013 now closed
• /Call for proposals - deadline: Friday 30 August 2013 now closed
• /Publicity - currently publicizing call for bookings