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Authors: Helaine Blumenthal[a][i], Brianda Felix[a][ii]

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  2. ↑ briandaAt signwikiedu.org

Abstract


Abstract Over the past ten years, Wiki Education has more than tripled the number of courses participating in the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada at the postsecondary level. At present, the Wiki Education team provides support for more than 700 courses and roughly 10,000 students each academic year. In this workshop, we’ll provide attendees with step-by-step guidance on how to conduct outreach to new program participants, brainstorm strategies for engaging program participants to promote retention, and demonstrate how to provide quality support while significantly scaling your program. We’ll introduce many of the tools Wiki Education has used to rapidly grow over the past ten years such as databases to track participants and our course dashboard to track Wikipedia work. We’ll specifically seek to ascertain the specific educational and cultural contexts of workshop attendees to better understand and formulate successful strategies for scaling. We’ll explore what barriers exist to scaling efforts and how these might be overcome. The workshop will also provide guidance on how to scale while considering critical issues around representation and access for a variety of communities.

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