Wikimedia Education Greenhouse

Welcome to the Wikimedia Education Project Management course on Wikiversity!

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This online course is part of the Wikimedia Education Greenhouse, a pilot program led by the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to support Wikimedia education program leaders to structure their activities on the idea of knowledge equity, considering the challenges and opportunities of their Wikimedia community and their local education context.

The course was collaboratively created with members of the Wikimedia education community and staff from the Wikimedia Foundation to equip participants with the skills, knowledge and support to bring their ideas to life and scale them into high-impact initiatives in their community.

Originally, the course was launched on July 2019 through Moodle (an open source learning management system) for over 100 participants and reached its completion on May 10, 2020. The purpose of this space on Wikiversity is to make the contents of the course available for the wider Wikimedia community interested in implementing education projects. The content of this course is being curated based on the feedback provided by participants of the original cohort. If you have any questions or suggestions for this space, please contact MGuadalupe (WMF) or leave us a note on the Discuss section.

General Course Info

• Quick starter guide
• Comms channels for the Wikimedia education community

Creating social change in education through the Open Knowledge movement

• Wikimedia & Education, knowledge equity, and SDG4
• Working with educators and education systems
• Developing workshops and training programs
• Working with the Wikimedia community on education projects

Basic project management for Wikimedia & Education

• Problem & objective analysis
• Logic models
• Working with stakeholders: Who can make or break this project?
• Budgets: What resources do we need to make this successful?
• Grant writing: How do we ask for resources?

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Advocacy for Wikimedia & Education

• Monitoring and course correction
• Impact evaluation
• Advocacy skills
• Sharing case studies: How can others learn from our project?

Final Course Assignment

• Instructions
• Achievements board

Shout outs

The Education team would like to thank the following community members and Wikimedia Foundation staff for their support and collaboration in the development of this pilot: Dana McCurdy, Jorge Vargas, James Baldwin, Woubzena Jifar, Krishna Chaitanya, Simona Ramkisson, Asaf Bartov, Shani Evenstein, Amanda Bittaker, Justice Okai-Allotey, Sandister Tei, the education program coordinators of Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Israel, and Wikimedia Serbia, Lionel Scheepmans, Dumisani Ndubane, Christel Steigenberger, Chris Schilling, Filip Maljkovic, and so many others!