How Wikipedia helps students in their learning?

1. How Wikipedia helps students in their
learning?
Rover T.F. Wong
President, Wikimedia Hong Kong

2. Why Wikipedia?

4. VS
One article
Hundreds of
pages

5. VS

6. Possible problems
 Content can be written by anyone.
reliability/correctness
neutrality

9. Case Study: Wikipedia used in Australian High
School syllabus

10.  Wikipedia is listed by the New South Wales
Board of Studies, Australia as prescribed
text for an elective course in the English
syllabus for 2009-2012.
 Don Cater, the English inspector at the
Board of Studies, said the course was
intended to teach students skills of
analysis to enable them to be more
discerning about content they found on
the web.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/459661/Aussie-
high-schoolers-get-Wikipedia-course

11. Conclusion
 Wikipedia serves as a gateway of
knowledge
 Wikipedia users not only obtain the
knowledge, but also learn how to use
online information in a proper way

12. Q&A