WikiLiteracy: enhancing students' digital literacy with Wikipedia
Journal article
| Authors | Ball, Caroline |
|---|---|
| Abstract | 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. |
| Keywords | Education; Library and Information Sciences; wikipedia; digital literacy |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal | Journal of Information Literacy |
| Journal citation | 13 (2), p. 253 |
| Publisher | CILIP Information Literacy Group |
| ISSN | 1750-5968 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.11645/13.2.2669 |
| Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624326 |
| http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |
| hdl:10545/624326 | |
| Publication dates | 03 Dec 2019 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 06 Dec 2019, 09:39 |
| Accepted | 07 Oct 2019 |
| Rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International |
| Contributors | University of Derby |
| File | File Access Level Open |
| File | File Access Level Open |
| File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/94y82/wikiliteracy-enhancing-students-digital-literacy-with-wikipedia
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