 everyone welcome it's half past one so let's go on to the next parallel session we have three speakers for you this afternoon for those of you who are following online I want to remind you of the Q&A ID for the Vvox session the ID is 103 237 391 so once again 103 237 391 so for any questions during the last five minutes of each session okay we kick off with Ewan McIntyre Ewan the floor is yours thank you so yes hello my name is Ewan I work as the Wikimedian in residence at the University of Edinburgh so my role here today is to explain a little about what I do and why we think there's a role and need even for Wikimedia in teaching and learning you can find more about the residency and its work by typing Wikipedia colon University of Edinburgh into the search bar of Wikipedia of Wikipedia itself you can find more about Wikipedia aged 18 years old in the state of the project at the bits.ly link Wikipedia 2019 and you can find student and staff feedback video interviews that we've done at tinyurl.com forward slash student vids along with approximately 255 videos and video tutorials so this conference is a very timely one for reflecting on the work we've been doing here at the University of Edinburgh over the last three and a half years now and it's my first time at ALT so time time for thoughts and reflection so I thought it start because we're all back from lunch is let's just start by taking a deep breath actually take two because I invite you to imagine you're in a sauna bear with me for a little wiki mindfulness if you want to you can close your eyes and just imagine you're in this sauna you can smell the wood smell the chlorine feel the heat on your face your arms and hear the playful splashing in the swimming pool outside you're in your happy place now imagine a guy called Patrick is asking you what you do for a living and you tell Patrick why I'm a Wikipedia in at the University of Edinburgh and Patrick replies cool what's Wikipedia got to do with universities so have a think for a moment what is the link between Wikipedia and universities put it in the VVox if you like what would you say how would you answer we'll be having a panel just after this session where we'll be discussing just that I was a bit stumped for a minute when I thought about it until I remembered my held higher education award but I don't like to talk about that but in terms of answering Patrick's question it was a fair question let's see how about the shared vision and mission statements this idea that there is the both communities the Wikipedia and higher education communities are involved in the creation curation and dissemination of knowledge and as Sue Beckham said it's about understanding and engaging with the relationships we have with the open web how people are creating curating and contesting knowledge online and our relationship with big digital intermediaries like Facebook like Google like Amazon and Wikipedia the fifth most about visit type visited website in the world and the first port of call for many for their information needs so what about digital skills the digital skills aspect it's widely recognized that digital capabilities are a key component in graduate employability so many reports make this clear so supporting learning good digital research skills synthesizing that information and then communicating it in a rapidly changing digital world is so so important right now and it's also about supporting developing a more robust critical information literacy this is the definition of information literacy to think critically and make balance judgments about information it empowers us and citizens to reach and express informed views and to engage fully with society our experience with our academic support librarians is that working with Wikipedia achieves this at its heart though it's about the fact that search is the way we live now and it's about engaging with all sorts of different aspects Wikimedia work affords working in looking at open access looking at copyright looking at how we support open science public engagement with research public engagement with collections and so more and so on and it's about this when you turn on a tap you expect clean water to come out and when you do a search you expect good information to come out and fact that information that's on Wikipedia spreads across the internet and what's right or wrong or indeed missing affects the entire internet representation matters fact-checking matters this is how Wikipedia is often framed in teaching and learning it's about warning students about its use pros and cons something to be consumed at your peril when Wikipedia in education should really spin this on its head it's about what you can also contribute as an institution a staff and the students and what you can then get out of that teaching and learning experience as a result indeed the Alts website defines learning technology as the broad range of communication information and related technologies that can be used to support learning teaching and assessment Wikipedia's learning technology we don't often think of it like that but it is the largest open knowledge resource in human history that is free and open and anyone to contribute to now age 18 years old Wikipedia ranks among the world's top 10 websites for scholarly resource lookups and as extensively used by virtually every platform used on a daily basis receiving over 500 million views per month from 1.5 billion unique devices quite simply Wikipedia is today the gateway through which millions of people now seek access to knowledge ergo Wikimedians are learning technologists and a Wikimedian for those that don't know they don't just appear they learn how to edit Wikipedia so that they can train other people my own background is in secondary school English others come from different backgrounds entirely these skills are easy to learn and they're easy to communicate to other people ergo learning technologists are Wikimedians or they should be because at the University of Edinburgh we have quickly generated real examples of technology enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum that have been repeated year on year because of the positive reactions of staff and students we have transformed our students from the staff and members of the public of the public from being passive readers and consumers to being active engaged contributors the courses in red are the ones we did in year one courses in blue are the ones we've done in year two combined with year one and now we've extended to the courses in green in year three these courses are growing they're expanding and we're now looking to support more online environment course programs the result is that our community is more engaged with knowledge creation online and readers all over the world benefit from our teaching research and collections are Wikimedia and the curriculum activities bring benefits to the students who learn new skills and have immediate impact in addressing both the diversity of editors and diversity of content shared online global health master students add around 200 words to global health related articles and their edits to the page on obesity for example are viewed something like 3000 times per day on average digital sociology master students engage in workshops with how sociology is communicated and how knowledge is created and curated online and reproductive biology students they work in groups in two workshops at the beginning of the semester learning about digital research skills from our academic support librarians so that they can work collaboratively to research and publish new articles on reproductive biomedical terms not yet on Wikipedia one students article on high-grade cirrus carcinoma one of the most common forms of ovarian cancer and most deadly didn't exist on Wikipedia this students work includes 60 references that she researched and diagrams she created because she couldn't find copyrighted freed ones online it's been viewed something like 74,000 times since it was first published that's impact translation studies master students gain meaningful published practice each semester by translating 2000 words to share knowledge between two different language Wikipedia's on a topic of their own choosing from the highest quality article articles world Christianity master students spend the semester undertaking a literature review assignment to make the subject much less about white northern hemispheres perspectives creating new articles on Asian feminist theology sub-Saharan political theology and more data science for design students Wikipedia has a sister project wiki data which affords the students the opportunity to work practically with research data sets like the survey of Scottish witchcraft database and surface data to the linked open data cloud and explore different visualizations and the direct and indirect relationships at play in the semantic web of knowledge to help further discovery we also work with student societies law and technology history translation women in stem and have held events parade a lovely stay LGBT history month black history month mental health awareness week and celebrated Edinburgh's global alumni working with the uncover ed project and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission students are addressing serious knowledge gaps and are intrinsically motivated to communicate their scholarship because of this they benefit from the practice academically and enjoy doing it personally because their scholarship is published lasting long beyond the assignment and does something for the common good for an audience of not one not just their tutor but an audience of millions why engage at all I think we know that representation matters and that gender inequality and science and technology is all too real gaps in our shared knowledge exclude the vitally important contributions of many within our community and role models trail blazes are important you can't be what you can't see take 65% of our participating editors at the University of Edinburgh have been women that's quite a difference from the normal 10% average of Wikipedia editors and on the reproductive biology course it's 90% women who edit on that course the choices being made in creating new pages and increasing the visibility of topics and the visibility of inspirational role models online can not only help shape public understanding around the world for the better but can also help inform and shape our physical environments to inspire the next generation Wikipedia in the curriculum involves identifying reliable secondary sources we can cite and sometimes the lack thereof discussing whose knowledge open access bias neutral point of view writing for a lay audience and copyright these are all absolutely appropriate for the modern graduate the skills needed by those contributing to Wikipedia are the same digital skills which a degree at the University of Edinburgh is designed to develop those of critical reading summarizing paraphrasing original writing referencing citing publishing data handling and understanding your audience in this era fake fake news is never been more important that our students understand how information is published shared and contested online and beyond this feel empowered that they can do something positive to share fact-check knowledge and help build understanding why because it's an emotional connection within I'd say less than two hours of me putting a page in place it was the top hit that came back in Google when I googled it and I thought that's it that's impact right there just to finish things can look bleak at times picking up from Sue Beckingham's keynote a keynote a year ago Tim Berners Lee was on Channel 4 news being interviewed about the Facebook and Cambridge and analytical scandal and he said this we need to rethink our attitude to the internet it's not enough just to keep the web open and free we must also keep a track of what people are building on it look at the systems that people are using like the social networks and look at whether they're actually helping humanity are they being constructive or are they being destructive happily he cheered up a few months later when he was giving his cheering award lecture in Amsterdam in May 2018 he did while he still feels that the open web is that something of crossroads and could go either way constructive or destructive he found words of praise for Wikipedia it is amazing that humanity has proved produce Wikipedia it is an act of human generosity and he's that's my experience of working with Wikipedia over the last three and a half years the research the feedback from staff and students all bear this out people do feel they're doing something inherently good and worthwhile in sharing verifiable open knowledge and they learned so much from engaging in this process they become knowledge activists I commend it to you as a hugely impactful form of learning technology thank you thank you you and we've got three minutes for a few questions anyone in the audience no there's some questions online the first one is what's exactly different because because you talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia and you sometimes entertain seem to entertain some commonly not miss not understood difference Wikipedia is the free open online and Psychopedia started in 2001 Wikimedia is the foundation the hundred percent non-profit foundation that supports and develops around about a dozen open knowledge projects of which Wikipedia is by far the best known okay there's a comment from someone saying excellent work example of development of digital literacy they thank you for that and someone else asks do you have examples of assessment criteria used for Wikipedia assessment sorry different models a lot of course leaders like start off in a small scale way and have it as an unassessed elective and but also equally some people go straight in and swap it out with oral assessment of five percent of course credit we do have rubrics we can provide and that for different ways of judging criteria of quality of articles and we have other sort of peer assessment guides are also used as well thank you someone else says thinking back to my own university days I had friends who would write their essays from Wikipedia and would go back and reference with proper academic papers afterwards how do you deal with this kind of they would write their essays from Wikipedia and go back and reference proper academic papers afterwards so they're citing yeah we would not advocate citing Wikipedia in the idea is we want students to write to Wikipedia using reliable published secondary sources and Wikipedia does not want to it's a tertiary source an academic encyclopedia which based on articles which cite reliable published secondary sources if you want to cite anything cite those but check their reliability also okay obviously turn it in software yeah use to check copyright violation and things like that okay any other questions from the audience yes there's a question here the microphone okay Steve York it's just a really practical question I just wondered obviously in the first year if someone's creating a new page on an underdeveloped topic I can see how that works really well just wondered how you then deal with it in subsequent years if you start to run out of okay so it depends with which language Wikipedia you're working in English Wikipedia is by far the largest with 5.8 million articles the other language Wikipedia's have a lot fewer and but it's estimated that English Wikipedia if it was trying to cover all the sum of whole human knowledge it should have at least 105 million articles so we're only 100 million articles shy of where we need to be and that number keeps on going up month on month so there are articles missing there are stub articles that need improved it's always going to be a work in progress but sometimes you can change the topic or the slight angle at which you're approaching the assignment from I know that the University of Portsmouth have asked their students to write about villages in England and Wales and because they had a large cohort year on year that they started running out of villages Scotland's been untouched I'm just saying that okay thank you again okay our next presentation is about designing a new digital Edina's work with learning technologies helps to develop skilled data literate students who can change our world for the better teachers and students can develop and share coding skills with multiple or Jupiter notebook service our DigiMap services deliver high quality mapping data for all stages of education future developments include a text and data mining service working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology