PRESS RELEASE: Lorraine Hariton elected to Wiki Education Foundation board

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 18, 2014 — The Wiki Education Foundation board today announced the election of its newest member, Lorraine Hariton. She brings more than 25 years’ experience in technology industry, including serving as the CEO of two companies, Beatnik and Apptera. “Lorraine’s deep knowledge of the technology world and extensive business development experience … Continued

Student editor achieves Good Article status for “Women’s health in India”

Student editor Jasdeepsgill created the article on Women’s health in India for Dr. Gunseli Berik’s course, Gender and Economic Development in the Third World, at the University of Utah in the spring 2013 term. The article, which covers several problems with plaguing Indian women in relation to their access to healthcare, achieved Good Article status, … Continued

Ph.D. student creates article on gamification of learning

When Heather Birch, a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, first learned she’d been assigned to write a Wikipedia article for Dr. Jonathan Obar’s Knowledge Media, Culture & Society course in spring 2014, she worried about finding an article to edit and spent a week struggling to make the decision. Her research focuses broadly on gamification, but she … Continued

Wiki Education Foundation Monthly Report: May 2014

Highlights We launched our new website. We will continue to build out various areas, but now there is a central place for information about the Wiki Education Foundation, our participants, and our activities. We have an active blog that you can subscribe to by email or RSS at http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/blog. We announced the hiring of three new staff … Continued