1. Teaching with Wikipedia

2. The idea Wikipedia workshop(s) for Education
Course assignments built around writing/editing/analyzing Wikipedia Article

3. Types of Assignments Create a new article from scratch
Substantially edit and existing article
Fact-check and proofread an existing article
Evaluate an existing article

4. Benefits to students Critical thinking Media and information literacy
Gain experience in information production
External accountability
Democratizing content
A change from the usual research paper MI

5. Benefits to faculty members and the Faculty
Exposure
Innovation
Inexpensive service learning
Publishing opportunities MI

6. Similar projects
Salem State University: As part of a sociology course, students were required to create Wikipedia pages for neighborhoods in Boston, MA.
UC-San Francisco School of Medicine: Medical students in their last year of medical school must edit (fact-check, proofread, add content) Wikipedia medical articles. (
University of Freiburg: Translation students are asked to to translate German Wikipedia articles into English.
Concordia University: Students in the course “Justice and Social Conflict” had to create new articles profiling current social justice organizations working on justice and social conflict issues. MI

7. Example School Psychology Seminar (EDPE 611)
Students edit and expand on the School Psychology article on Wikipedia as a group
Children’s Literature (EDEE 325)
Students edit/create articles of Canadian children’s literature authors
Aboriginal Physical Activities (EDKP 241)
Students edit/create articles about native games, stunts, combatives, gymnastics, and dance activities EK

8. marcela.isuster@mcgill.ca and emily.kingsland@mcgill.ca
Going forward
Visit the Wikipedia Education Foundation website
Get in touch with Marcela and Emily
Work together on developing course assignment
Schedule workshops
and