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     The calls for formal proposals as well as editathons and/or hackatons are now closed and everyone who emailed a submission will be contacted by the second or third week of September. Initial proposals from WMUK community members for general ideas are currently also being processed.

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

This edition of the conference is in the planning stage and this page currently holds basic information regarding some of the essential considerations being discussed by the Education Committee.

Eventually, as these plans become more concrete, this page will carry all the information about the EduWiki Conference 2013.

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

Conference Schedule

A detailed schedule will be available in the coming days. Meanwhile you can view an draft outline of the planned programme as it takes shape.

The conference begins on Friday morning and ends on Saturday afternoon, but will be followed by further activities (walking tours, edit-a-thons and a hack-a-thon) on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

The programme will eventually be assembled on this page by the same process of good faith collaboration that drives Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Panorama of Cardiff Bay, location of EduWiki Conference 2013

Feedback from EduWiki 2012

• "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.

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
• /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 event ideas