Education/Newsletter/February 2018
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This Month in Education
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | February 2018
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
In This Issue
From the Community
In February 2018, a workshop was conducted at the International Islamic University, Chittagong in Bangladesh with the help of theElectrical & Electronic Department. During this workshop the basic guidelines for editing Wikipedia were introduced, and students were provided an overview of WikiProject Engineering. read more...
How did we develop a virtual course for highschool and university teachers. How we organized and what we learned from the 6 editions we did since 2014. We want to share tips with others education programs to develop a MOOC where teachers can learn how to edit in Wikipedia. read more...
Within the Wikipedia in schools project in January, 20 pupils of elementary school "Jovan Sterija Popović" in Belgrade expressed their interest in participating workshop on editing Wikipedia. read more...
GLAM Macedonia established a new Wiki Club in Ohrid, which first working session in 2018 was held on 16 February 2018. This collaboration come as a result of Wiki Conference for teachers in October 2017. read more...
Editing wiki projects is one of the main tools to speak to the modern world and to feel a part of it. This story tells about Karvachar's WikiClub. read more...
This year we have kick-started our Education Program, and we have met more than 120 university professors and lecturers in the University of the Basque Country in order to open new courses to teach Wikipedia and create high-quality articles for 12-16 year schoolchildren. Now, we are having our first results, and more than 30 new courses have been launched in this term. read more...
A review meeting was organised on the on-going Education program in Christ Deemed to be University with the members of Wikimedia India and Centre for Internet and Society to understand the scope, progress and outcome of the program. read more...
Workshops and progress with high school students in two schools: (1) Salvatorian Sisters’ School & (2) Al-Battouf High School read more...
From the Education Team
The Education Extension is in the process of being taken offline, it's time to move to the Programs & Events Dashboard. read more...
On February 14, 2018 the Wikipedia Education Program team presented the results of the survey, and the recording is available for viewing. read more...
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