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ERIC Number: EJ1300295
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Dec
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1750-5968
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WikiLiteracy: Enhancing Students' Digital Literacy with Wikipedia
Ball, Caroline
Journal of Information Literacy, v13 n2 p253-271 Dec 2019
In January 2019 the University of Derby delivered its first module entirely dedicated to and structured around editing and writing articles for Wikipedia. The course focused on using Wikipedia as a means to improve students' skills in writing for public consumption, in addition to enhancing their digital and collaborative skills. Students contributed to 118 articles across a range of topics, which were viewed over 11.2 million times, providing them with a public platform no university assignment could match, and introduced them to the challenges of interaction and engagement in a global editing community. Students' confidence in their digital capabilities was assessed at the start and end of the module and showed a clear increase in confidence across all categories.
CILIP Information Literacy Group. 7 Ridgmount Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7AE, United Kingdom. e-mail: jinfolit@gmail.com; Web site: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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