Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later

Abstract

International audienceJust a few years ago Wikipedia was seen as a barbarian invading the ivory tower. Now, an increasing number of academics recognize that it can be used as an effective teaching tool. The following paper is divided into two parts. It beings with a discussion of the advantages of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, an activity that goes beyond a simple addition to the teaching repertoire, and allows contributing to our society through service learning and participation in an online community of practice. Contributing to Wikipedia benefits the students, the instructors and the wider community. The second part focuses on practice of teaching with Wikipedia. Building on my five years of experience in teaching with wikis and Wikipedia and holding workshops on the subject, I will discuss the most efficient ways to incorporate Wikipedia into one's teaching curriculum, highlight common problems and their solutions, and describe a number of new tools enhancing the “teaching with Wikipedia” experience

Wikipédia, la chimère du savoir libre

“…Nous avons pu constater que Wikipédia est actuellement un média éducationnel fort répandu dans les universités, puisqu'il offre l'opportunité de façonner les habiletés communicationnelles et rédactionnelles des étudiants. Poser des affiches contre Wikipédia sur tous les terminaux publics dans les bibliothèques (Konieczny 2012) ne serait plus conséquent avec l'approche didactique d'aujourd'hui. Tout comme l'utilisation de l'encyclopédie à des fins pédagogiques n'est pas généralisée à l'intérieur des établissements d'enseignement supérieur, l'attitude des bibliothèques n'est pas uniforme non plus.…”

An investigation of University students’ ınformation literacy self-efficacy perceptions by using decision tree method

“…Vikipedi ise genelde verilen bir ödevi yapabilmek için en kolay bilgiye ulaşma aracı olarak kullanılmaktadır. Ayrıca işbirlikli şekilde bir konu hakkında makaleler oluşturmak içinde kullanılmaktadır (Konieczny, 2012;Bruscas Bellido, Serrano Mira, Romero Subirón & Abellán Nebot, 2012). Facebook'un yoğun kullanımından doğan olumsuz sonuçlar ise uygun olmayan davranışlar sergilenmesi, kötüye kullanma, mahremiyet ve arkadaşlıklarla ilgili problemler (Aydin, 2012) ve sanal zorbalık (Aydin, 2012;Kwan & Skoric, 2013) şeklinde ortaya çıkmıştır.…”

A New Way to Use Wikipedia in Education: A Pilot Study of Map-like Wikipedia Visualization on iPad

“…Students reflected generally positive feedback, for example, Wikipedia was informative, helped them to learn a lot and improved their writing and research skills [10]. After five years of the publishing of Konieczny's work [9], the author summarized the teaching experience with Wikipedia, and discussed ways to incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum as well as common problems faced in daily teaching [11]. This demonstrated the feasibility of applying Wikipedia in general classrooms in this digital era.…”

“…Konieczny suggested instead of banning Wikipedia in class, students should be taught to use it with caution and properness. Eventually students will benefit from the tool whereas it also enhances teachers' portfolio of their teaching strategy [9].…”