EduWiki Conference 2013
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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
A recent white paper from TurnItIn, the online plagiarism-prevention service used widely across higher education in the UK, claims that "Wikipedia has an outsized presence as a content source for student writing".[1] This study is based on an analysis of over 112 million content matches from 28 million student papers submitted to TurnItIn between July 2011 and June 2012. 11% of these content matches are from Wikipedia. However, the same report is quick to explain that Wikipedia has academic merit in terms of educational value. TurnItIn's recommendation is to "educate students that the true value of Wikipedia is to provide a curated summary on a topic, and that they should follow the sources and citations at the bottom of Wikipedia entries to verify the accuracy of the information and to uncover primary source material".[2]
Conference Themes
The conference will revolve around broad themes including the following streams:
- The Wikipedia Education Program
- Open Educational Resources
- Critical thinking, digital literacy and wiki-literacy
- Assessment and accreditation
- Open learning communities such as Wikiversity
Wikmedia UK is currently inviting proposals for papers, presentation, provocations and/or posters, especially ones addressing the Wikipedia problem highlighted by the TurnItIn white paper. Proposal for panels and roundtable discussions from groups of three or four participants are also welcome.
Conference Schedule
A detailed schedule will be available in early September.
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.
PLANNING: Collaborative Task List
The following are things that need addressing ahead of the conference. Please feel free to add your name against anything on this list with which you can be involved:
- Target group coordination
- Invited keynote speakers
- Editathon/s
- Courses Extension Hackathon
- Formal Proposals
Input from Conference Committee on...
- Logistics (accommodation, delegate packs, etc.)
- Marketing/Publicity
- Registration
- Registration fee to be determined once we have full costings in place, especially for venue hire, etc.
- Suggestion is to have a day rate, so that either Friday or Saturday could attract separate audiences. Following from 2012 this could be £20-40/day. We normally subsidise the registration rate and fee is aimed mainly at ensuring the attendance.
Local links
We need to establish a (small) number of local links in the education sector to make the best of the fact that EduWiki is taking place in this location. Please feel free to recommend local links here:
- Colegau Cymru / CollegesWales Represents Wales' FE colleges
- WJEC Awarding body for Wales (and parts of England and Northern Ireland), including A/AS levels, Welsh Baccalaureate and OCN equivalent.
- Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol
- Digidol; Cardiff University or Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe)
- Butetown History and Arts Centre local organisation which has an educational element.
On a practical note could there be a joint working group for this to avoid duplication and contradiction and encourage more people to get involve? Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk) 15:05, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Target Groups
We aim to accommodate a total of 80 - 120 delegates, coming mainly from these areas:
- Higher Education
- Secondary/High Schools
- University of the 3rd Age
Update
The contents of this page may/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
- /Call for proposals - deadline: Monday 26 August 2013
- /Publicity - currently publicizing CFP