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Direct linkMcKenzie, Brian; Brown, Jonathan; Casey, Denis; Cooney, Adeline; Darcy, Eamon; Giblin, Susan; Ní Mhórdha, Máire – College Teaching, 2018
Wikipedia can serve as an effective, engaging tool for teaching key information literacy skills. This article examines the experience of seven faculty members and over four hundred students who edited Wikipedia as part of a first-year seminar. We review the literature surrounding the pedagogical value of Wikipedia and then discuss our goals in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Information Literacy, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Download full textKnoester, Matthew; Gichiru, Wangari P. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2014
The University of Evansville, like many universities, requires a seminar for all incoming first-year students to prepare students for college-level writing, along with the reading and discussion of challenging texts. Often, these courses share particular books to allow in-coming students to share a "common experience." This article…
Descriptors: Democracy, First Year Seminars, Social Studies, Foreign Countries
South Carolina Univ., Columbia. Center for the Study of the Freshman Year Experience. – 1994
These proceedings contain 68 author-prepared abstracts of presentations given at the Seventh International Conference on the First-Year Experience, a 5-day conference that focused on the foundations for improving the undergraduate experience. The majority of the one- to two-page abstracts report on specific programs undertaken by colleges or…
Descriptors: Abstracts, College Freshmen, College Programs, Cultural Awareness
