### **A high-impact, real-world assignment** Take your students beyond the classroom with the Wikipedia assignment! You’ll bring your subject expertise, we’ll bring ours in Wikipedia, and together we’ll empower your students to fill in content gaps, enhance representation, and improve citations on the world’s largest encyclopedia. Each term, Wiki Education supports hundreds of faculty across the U.S. and Canada as they incorporate the Wikipedia assignment into their courses by providing custom syllabi, tailored resources, robust student trainings, and staff support. * * * ### **Get started with your Wikipedia assignment** Click “Apply Now” and follow the prompts to create your Wikipedia account, then head back over to dashboard.wikiedu.org to take our 30-minute, self-paced instructor orientation and create your course page. We are currently accepting course pages for the **winter/spring 2026** term. Course pages are accepted on a rolling basis as space permits. _Get started today:_ Apply Now * * * ### **Join a live information session** **Interested in connecting with us on Zoom?** Join an upcoming Teaching with Wikipedia webinar to hear directly from Wiki Education staff and think through the possibilities for your courses. We’d love to see you! ##### _Next webinar:_ **Tuesday, December 16** , 2025 · 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern · **REGISTER NOW** * * * ### **How it works** Through our Dashboard’s trainings, tracking tools, and human support, faculty guide their students to research course-related topics, then fill in missing information and add high-quality citations to Wikipedia articles. Students develop research, writing, and digital literacy skills, all while improving representation and knowledge equity for all – instead of writing for just for their professor, they’ll write for the world. _The Wikipedia Student Program is free for participants, funded by generous donations to Wiki Education._ _Wiki Education’s free support extends to instructors teaching at postsecondary institutions accredited in the U.S. and Canada._ * * * ### **The faculty experience** As students write Wikipedia articles through our program, they learn how to collaborate with their peers, frame academic research to the public, and convey knowledge to a non-expert audience. Essentially, they do work that really matters! * **97%** of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment improved their students’ digital and media literacy skills. * **96%** of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment helped their students develop a sense of digital citizenship (e.g., a desire to contribute to and ensure the accuracy and accessibility of information). * **93%** of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment improved their students’ research skills * **77%** of instructors agree that a Wikipedia assignment helped their students to become more socially and culturally aware (e.g., the ability to identify underrepresentation and other content gaps stemming from bias). Explore **faculty reflections on their experiences** and **peer reviewed literature** about teaching with Wikipedia. * * * ### **Interested?** To hear from us about the Wikipedia Student Program, please submit the form below._Note:_ _Wiki Education’s free support extends to instructors teaching at postsecondary institutions accredited in the U.S. and Canada._ Go back #### Your message has been sent Name(required) Warning Email(required) Warning Institution Warning How did you hear about Wiki Education? Warning What term are you interested in? Warning Anything else you'd like to share? Warning Warning.__ Submit Δ * * * ### **Questions?** Contact Wiki Education’s Andrés Vera at andres@wikiedu.org. * * * ### **Testimonials** > Students’ Wikipedia pages and presentations also showed me that they achieved everything that a traditional research paper is supposed to do and more—they conducted research, analyzed it, wrote effectively about their topics, but also shared their work in a meaningful way with each other and with the public. Sarah Lirley Columbia College In the past two years, writing for Wikipedia has added intellectual substance and verve to my courses, while giving me and my students a sense of accomplishment as we produce and disseminate knowledge. Heather Sharkey University of Pennsylvania > By the end of the quarter, they realize that their work has been affecting people, something that rarely happens with a standard term paper. In their evaluations of the course, students routinely mention the Wikipedia assignment as their favorite part. 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