LiAnna Davis of Wiki Education: Integrating Wikipedia into College Coursework.
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It all started over 10 years ago, with College Faculty using Wikipedia for college coursework, and their students editing its content. Wiki Education was created to support these Faculty members.
LiAnna Davis is the Chief Programs Officer and the Dy. Director at Wiki Education.
LiAnna joins us on our podcast to tell us all about Wiki Education, Types of Content, Process to Edit Content, Why Students Should Engage, Success Stories, and Advice for High Schoolers.
In particular, we discuss the following with her:
- What is Wiki Education?
- How do Profs and Students Participate?
- Why Should Students Engage?
- Advice for High Schoolers
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introducing LiAnna Davis of Wiki Education []
- Hi Fives - Podcast Highlights []
- Background []
- What is Wiki Education? []
- Role of Students[]
- Student Contributions []
- The Approval Process []
- Types of Articles []
- Distribution of the 700 Courses[]
- Why Should Students Engage with Wiki Education? []
- Success Stories []
- What’s Next? []
- Advice for High Schoolers []
Our Guest: LiAnna Davis is the Chief Programs Officer and the Dy. Director at Wiki Education. LiAnna has a Master of Arts degree in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University.
Memorable Quote: “So one of the things that we find is college students are sort of starved for meaningful assignments in higher education. And, you know, when you [write] traditional academic paper, it goes to an audience of one person, who's your professor. And you know, and they give you a bunch of feedback on it, and they give you a letter grade, and you probably don't do anything with it ever again” LiAnna Davis.
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