The Wikipedia Education Program as Open Educational Practice: Global Stories

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Wikipedia provides an opportunity for students to engage not only in the consumption of Open Educational Resources (OER) but also in their production. This Open Educational Practice (OEP) has been the cornerstone of the Wikipedia Education Program—a loosely coordinated, simultaneous global effort to integrate Wikipedia into higher education classrooms. In this chapter, the authors will provide an overview of the work that has been done globally across time and selected case studies of work undertaken in Serbia, Israel, the United States/Canada and Brazil to support college and university students writing articles in the Serbian, Hebrew, English and Portuguese Wikipedias, respectively. The overview will rely on data from multiple sources: scientific reviews, non-academic case reports and unprecedented descriptive statistics on recent education programmes and their impact. Case studies will touch on how engaging in Wikipedia as an OEP integrates into course design, how cultural institutions (i.e., university libraries and museums) collaborate with the programme, and how the Wikipedia Education Program might be framed as promoting knowledge equity.