Presented by Brandon Adler, Head of Library Services and Information Literacy Librarian, University of New Orleans.

This presentation will teach instructors about the application process for the WikiEdu platform as well as crucial instructional design assistance the platform provides. Instructors will learn how the speaker designed the course to highlight the 6 threshold concepts of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the pedagogical value of use WikiEdu in an online asynchronous format. The WikiEdu platform teaches students to begin looking at information in with an eye toward equity, inclusion, and diversity. By contributing research and writing to a Wikipedia article, students can tackle important issues with information and content gaps, such as Wikipedia’s Gender Gap. Likewise, learning about and identifying content gaps teaches students to recognize research and writing with an eye toward “notability” and “neutrality” which helps to identify information written with biased or subjective points of view.

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