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Education Program

Participant support
No two education programs are alike and participants may want or need different kinds of support to contribute quality content to Wikimedia projects. Help educators and students have positive experiences using Wikimedia in the classroom by using or sharing these guidelines. In this section you will find: information on course planning, links to interactive trainings, best practices for teaching and tools to identify and monitor student work.


Teaching and Assignments

There are many ways that students can contribute to Wikimedia projects. In this section you will find case studies, sample assignments and links to reports on recent classroom collaborations.



Problem solving
Program leaders and educators may run into a variety of difficulties when they are teaching students how to contribute to Wikimedia projects. Reading this section will prepare you to prevent or resolve conflicts with the Wikimedia community, improve the quality of student work and manage classroom connectivity in your education program so that you can ‘salvage the moment’ if something goes wrong.