Faculty / Academic Staff FORUM Making the World a Better Place: Incorporating a Wikipedia Project into the Classroom Mel Kantor and Robin Miller Institute for Health Science and McIntyre Library Academics love to hate Wikipedia. Undergraduates are condi�oned to avoid referencing it, with warnings that it is unreliable or false. Nonetheless, Wikipedia is highly indexed by Google and many people refer to Wikipedia entries before any other source of informa�on. Improving Wikipedia ar�cles with current, credible informa�on is a small but meaningful way to make the world a be�er place. Edi�ng a Wikipedia ar�cle requires students to evaluate informa�on, synthesize classroom material and appropriate scholarly literature, and communicate for a general audience. Using tools provided by Wiki Educa�on, we have collaborated for three years to incorporate a Wikipedia project into Epidemiology (ENPH 450). We will share bibliometric data to show the outcome of student contribu�ons and survey data to assess students’ a�tudes, and we will describe how the assignment has evolved. Wednesday October 2, 2019 12:10 - 12:50 p.m. *CETL (VLL 1142)* Feel free to bring your lunch. Fall 2019 Series Oﬃce of Research & Sponsored Programs

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Faculty / Academic Staff

F O R U MMaking the World a Better Place: Incorporating a

Wikipedia Project into the Classroom

Mel Kantor and Robin MillerInstitute for Health Science

and McIntyre Library

Academics love to hate Wikipedia. Undergraduates are condi�oned to avoid referencing it, with warnings that it is unreliable or false. Nonetheless, Wikipedia is highly indexed by Google and many people refer to Wikipedia entries before any other source of informa�on. Improving Wikipedia ar�cles with current, credible informa�on is a small but meaningful way to make the world a be�er place. Edi�ng a Wikipedia ar�cle requires students to evaluate informa�on, synthesize classroom material and appropriate scholarly literature, and communicate for a general audience. Using tools provided by Wiki Educa�on, we have collaborated for three years to incorporate a Wikipedia project into Epidemiology (ENPH 450). We will share bibliometric data to show the outcome of student contribu�ons and survey data to assess students’ a�tudes, and we will describe how the assignment has evolved.

WednesdayOctober 2, 2019

12:10 - 12:50 p.m.*CETL (VLL 1142)*

Feel free to bring your lunch.

Fall 2019 Series

O�ce of Research &Sponsored Programs