A Novel Undergraduate Seminar Course Celebrating Scientific Contributions by Scientists from Historically Marginalized Communities

Romo, Jesús A.; Rokop, Megan

doi:10.1128/jmbe.00123-22

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“…Namely, the construction and contextuality of authority, the process of information creation, and the value of information. Further, through the lens of critical information literacy [ 15 , 16 ], the inclusion of Wikipedia-based work in higher education has also been argued to improve knowledge equity alongside the development of students’ understanding of systemic biases [ 17 , 18 ]. Such bias, which Wikipedia has long been known to mirror [ 19 , 20 ], was thrust into the spotlight in 2021 when it was discovered that Canadian Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, did not have a Wikipedia page on the grounds that she did not meet Wikipedia’s notability requirements [ 21 ].…”

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Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation

Smith

2023

J Can Health Libr Assoc

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Background: Academic institutions and libraries are familiar with Wikipedia. There is growing momentum in higher education for using Wikipedia as a learning tool in various contexts. These include, but are not limited to, the use of Wikipedia-based assignments to teach information literacy, science communication, evidence-based practice, and more. Although there is growing acceptance of Wikipedia’s value in the classroom, there are limited exemplars available for how it is applied in undergraduate health sciences education. Description: This program description describes a librarian instructed course in the Bachelor of Health Sciences Program at McMaster University in which students dedicate one academic term to learning about Wikipedia content production and making contributions to a health-related Wikipedia article of their choice. Outcomes: In the five iterations of this course that have been offered, undergraduate health sciences students have made significant contributions to 25 health-related articles in Wikipedia. They have added more than 120,000 words and over 2,000 references to high-quality literature. In class, conversations emerged about the meaningfulness of the editing Wikipedia, information literacy, and knowledge translation.

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Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation

Smith

2023

J Can Health Libr Assoc

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Wikipedia as an academic service-learning tool in science and technology: higher education case from Siberia

Arslan,

Turk

2023

J Community Genet

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Design, Evolution, and Evaluation of a General Chemistry-Bridging Course

Reid

2023

Education Sciences

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General chemistry I/II courses are important gateway courses for a variety of STEM majors, as poor performance in these courses is often associated with lower rates of student success and retention. Much research has explored preparatory or remedial strategies to improve student outcomes. In this article, we report a different approach, which involved the development of a bridging or intervention course designed to capture students who are not or have not succeeded in general chemistry I and prepare them to retake the course in the following semester or summer. The course was initially developed as an eight-week module in the second half of the fall semester, where students were required to withdraw from general chemistry I prior to enrolling. After three years of this offering modality, with the inception of a winter J-term, the course was redesigned and moved online, where it was taught for another three years. We describe here in detail the design, evolution, and evaluation of this course over the six-year period.

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A Novel Undergraduate Seminar Course Celebrating Scientific Contributions by Scientists from Historically Marginalized Communities

Abstract: Scientific contributions by members from historically marginalized communities (HMCs) have been largely ignored, uncredited, and in some cases erased from history. This has contributed to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula lacking diversity.

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Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation

Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation

Wikipedia as an academic service-learning tool in science and technology: higher education case from Siberia

Design, Evolution, and Evaluation of a General Chemistry-Bridging Course

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