User:DrJimLipuma

Dr Jim Lipuma's Page
I am currently the Director of Teacher Education Programs at the New Jersey INstitute of Technology (NJIT), Newark NJ as well as the curricular coordinator for the Technical Communications course at NJIT. I earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993, An MS in Environmental Policy Studies from NJIT in 1996, a PHD in Environmental Science from NJIT in 2001 and am just finishing my postdoctoral EdM in Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College Columbia University with a focus on Science education. I have developed curricula for schools and am an avid writer of Fiction. You can see my novel, Slayer of Evermore. I have also published my text; “Fundamentals of Undergraduate Education and Learning (FUEL)” that is used for my courses. To assist with learning the course materials and completing assignments, some of the content from this text has been produced as videos that will be used to cover course material and serve as a supplement to the text. See more about me at: http://njit.mrooms.net/mahara/view/view.php?id=166

WISER Project
The Wikipedia Improvement by Supported Expert Revision (WISER) Project was established as a way to have NJIT students learn to identify and edit articles in need of expert review and revision so the content in Wikipedia could be improved and the overall body of work could become more effective and reliable. In particular, the NJIT Workgroup on Information Literacy and Learning (WILL) desires to have clear support from high-quality sources added to the content of Wikipedia to demonstrate attainment of Information Literacy at NJIT as well as promote this idea in the overall Wikipedia community. To that end, the WILL developed the project to assess the ability of its students to use expert knowledge and support content with reliable sources that are relevant, current, and of quality.

I am currently the Chair of the NJITWILL and lead judge for the WISER Project.