User:Daniel T. Hickey

I am an Associate Professor and Program Head in Learning Sciences at Indiana University. I study situative and participatory approaches to assessment and motivation, generally in emerging technology-based environments.

I am quite interested in the educational potential of Wikipedia and have done some interesting work already with high school students. I also did some work with both the International Society for the Learning Sciences and the IULS graduate students getting the Learning Sciences entry on Wikipedia updated. I am collaborating with Sheryl Grant of HASTAC and Duke who is doing her dissertation on Barn Badges in Wikipedia.

The most current thing I am working on is an assignment in my Introduction to Learning Sciences class where students will each select a Wikipedia entry to edit as part of their class assignment.