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ERIC Number: EJ1350564
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-May-3
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Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1938-5978
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How College Students Are Improving Wikipedia
Davis, LiAnna
New England Journal of Higher Education, May 2022
All content to Wikipedia is added and edited in a crowdsourced model, wherein nearly anyone can click the "edit" button and change content on Wikipedia. An active community of dedicated volunteers is what keeps Wikipedia as reliable as it is today--good, but not complete. More diverse contributors are needed to add more content to Wikipedia. Some of that information has been added by college students, written as a class assignment. Research shows a Wikipedia assignment increases motivation for students, while providing them learning objectives like critical thinking, research, writing for a public audience, evaluating and synthesizing sources and peer review. Especially important in today's climate of misinformation and disinformation is the critical digital media literacy skills students gain from writing for Wikipedia, where they are asked to consider and evaluate the reliability of the sources they're citing. In addition to the benefits to student learning outcomes, instructors are also glad to see Wikipedia's coverage of their discipline get better. And it does get better; studies have shown the quality of content students add to Wikipedia is high.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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