Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Corporate Training and Development/Timeline

Step 1: First Exploration of Wikipedia
After reviewing each of the tabs, what observations can you make about the information on Wikipedia about each of the learning theories? Use worksheet on Blackboard to review a total of 10 Wikipedia pages about various learning theories.
 * Week 5 Assignment 3 (DUE Sunday or Monday, February 12 or 13, 2012)
 * Review O'Connor Chapter 5
 * Review and skim the learning theory resources in the Course Information/Week 5/Additional Weekly Resources folder
 * You will explore 10 Wikipedia pages related to various learning theories. Start by reviewing the Pedagogy page and the Andragogy page.
 * For each page, describe the information you find on the related tabs:
 * Article tab
 * Talk tab
 * Edit tab
 * View history tab
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Week 6 Assignment 2 (DUE Sunday or Monday, February 19 or 20, 2012)
 * The objective of this assignment is to collect key information about the learning theories you reviewed on Wikipedia to begin to compare and contrast the quality of information.
 * Complete one entry for each of the eight learning theories you reviewed (other than the first two--pedagogy and andragogy).
 * You may be able to find the information based on the information you collected last week. However, if the information is missing, do go back to the Wikipedia page for the learning theory to collect and input the exact text.

Step 2: Orientation to Wikipedia

 * Week 10 Assignment 3 (DUE Monday or Tuesday, March 25 or 26, 2012)
 * Create a Wikipedia account and add a description of who you are on your User page.
 * Example user pages, videos, and handouts are available in Blackboard.
 * Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Account and user page creation handout, Wikimarkup cheatsheet


 * Week 11 Assignment 2 (DUE Sunday or Monday, April 1 or 2, 2012)
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, leave a message for two classmates on their user talk page.
 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Step 3: Exploring the topic area

 * Week 12 Assignment 2 (DUE Sunday or Monday, April 8 or 9, 2012)
 * Review the Learning Theory pages found during Weeks 5 and 6 (see wikipedia-learning-theories-summary posted in Blackboard). Compare the differences between Stub Class, Start Class, C Class, and B Class articles.
 * Select a Learning Theory Wikipedia article to edit from the list of learning theories in the Wikipedia Learning Theories Summary document on Blackboard.

Step 4: Using sources

 * Week 13 Assignment 2 (DUE Sunday or Monday, April 15 or 16, 2012)
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video
 * Conduct library research on your selected Learning Theory.
 * Submit your research in Blackboard, including a 1-2 page report and bibliography/reference page.

Step 6: Suggest and Make Edits
''You made it! You edited your first Wikipedia article!''
 * Week 14 Assignment 2 (DUE Sunday or Monday, April 22 or 23, 2012)
 * Based on the library research you conducted, post your suggested edits on the Talk page for your learning theory and on your User page.
 * Wait 1-2 days to allow responses to your suggested edits. Then add your edits to the Learning Theory page.  The quantity of your suggested edit should range from 1 sentence to 1 paragraph.

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