Using Wikipedia as a Teaching Strategy in an Online Course

Description

The crowd-sourced site Wikipedia historically is disregarded by the academic community as unreliable. However, online college courses can help improve Wikipedia. This poster explains how journalism and mass communication courses taught online applied subject-matter concepts according to Quality Matters standards to edit Wikipedia articles. This approach can be used for any subject.

Presenter First Name:
Melony
Presenter Last Name:
Shemberger
Presenter Email:
mshemberger@murraystate.edu
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