Wikipedia and Its Sister Projects as Important Elements of the Teaching and Learning Process – a Review of the Global Situation

The main objective of this chapter is to showcase how Wikipedia, as the largest free encyclopedia, can be used as a didactic tool to bridge the gap in accessibility of knowledge and information and promote equity. The focus is on introducing one of the Wikimedia Serbia projects, the Professional Development of Teachers project and accredited seminars for teachers. This project aimed at educating teachers from various provincial towns to work independently to implement Wiki-projects, such as Wikipedia, in their institutions to help their students to gain access to the knowledge they cannot access otherwise and teach them how to approach online information in the correct manner. The results show that the participants of accredited seminars for teachers generally have a positive attitude towards the use of Wikipedia in teaching by motivating them to work with students and develop different projects, and that the use of Wikipedia in teaching contributes to the promotion of equity in access to open knowledge.

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scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

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Wikipedia and Its Sister Projects as Important Elements of the Teaching and Learning Process – a Review of the Global Situation

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Promoting Equity in Access to Open Knowledge

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