Writing Wikipedia Articles as Course Assignment

In this paper, we discuss the implication of assigning students to write Wikipedia articles in a course on motivation and learning. As part of mandatory course assignments, students write an article about a concept that relates to the course topic. This was introduced in a course in information science and the feedback shows that students are highly motivated and they have learned more about the topic that they write about.

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