2025:Meetups/Higher Education networking and meetup

Description

Continuing off from previous higher-ed meetup in 2023 in Singapore and 2024 in Katowice, we are doing the meetup again this year in Nairobi!

This meetup is an informal meetup for higher education participants to network and roundtable to discuss their experiences and share what they learned. Individuals can also report on the progress and achievements of their projects since last year. We can also discuss open research and open science.

Expected type of participants or demographic

Higher-ed instructors, researchers, librarians, representatives from affiliate chapters and anyone interested about using Wikipedia in higher-ed.

Contact person

User: OhanaUnited

Date and Time

6 August 12:30 - 14:00 local time (during lunch break)

Time length

90 minutes

Room

Nakuru (Meeting Room A)

Agenda

• Networking
• Roundtable
  • Project update
  • Best practices and lessons learned for using Wikipedia in education program (assignment, curriculum)
  • Filling in content gaps and correcting biases
  • Synergies between different sister projects
• Open research and open science discussion
• Others (feel free to propose or add to this list)

Interested participants

• --MarianaSenkiv (talk) 07:09, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
• --Manojk (talk) 19:45, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
• --Alhassan Mohammed Awal (talk) 04:45, 25 July 2025 (UTC)
• --Anup Sadi (talk) 17:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
• ...

Summary of meeting

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