UAL’s Head of Technology Enhanced Learning presents at Wikimania conference

Wikimania is the official annual event of the Wikimedia movement, where over 2000 delegates come together to discover a range of projects that people are making with wikis and open content.

David White, UAL’s new Head of Technology Enhanced Learning, presented a keynote in the Future of Education section of the conference. Titled ‘Now that Wikipedia’s done everyone’s homework, what’s left to teach?’, his presentation explored the possibilities for students to contribute to rather than simply reference Wikipedia:

“To the exasperation of many teachers, Wikipedia is the first port of call for millions of students from primary school to university. Its sheer convenience is challenging standard pedagogical approaches that implicitly assume information is scarce and difficult to duplicate. What if teachers asked students to contribute to Wikipedia instead”

You can watch David’s keynote on the Wikimania live stream page

To find out more about technology enhanced learning at UAL visit the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design website. For specific enquiries contact cltad@arts.ac.uk.