Program guides/Education

The idea behind the Wikipedia Education Program is simple: educators and students share free knowledge by contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in an academic setting. Wikipedia is being used as a teaching tool in education around the world (see list of countries). In some parts of the world, the academic setting is a traditional classroom and the editing is for a course assignment. In some parts of the world, students contribute to Wikimedia projects for community service, or as part of a club or a camp, or at campus edit-a-thons, hackathons and workshops. And in some parts of the world, teachers learn Wikipedia editing as part of their teacher training.

Success factors:

→ Start small, grow smart.
→ Work with the community.
→ Teach to student ability.
→ Focus on motivation.
→ Use tech tools to make work easier.
→ Set goals and track progress.

Help improve this toolkit!

Program toolkits are a community resource that anyone can edit. You can help improve this toolkit by linking to resources from your education programs, endorsing learning patterns, sharing advice, asking questions or by giving feedback on content and design.