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Let Wikipedia Through The Gates!: A Trojan Horse Approach To Information Literacy, John Thomas Oliver
Let Wikipedia Through The Gates!: A Trojan Horse Approach To Information Literacy, John Thomas Oliver
Library Instruction West 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate which learning targets can be achieved by using Wikipedia as a tool for teaching information literacy within the context of brief one-shot library instruction sessions.
Design/methodology/approach – In this case study, a Wikipedia-editing activity was incorporated into 2-hour one-shot instruction sessions. A variety of qualitative data were collected during these sessions: Student reflections during a facilitated discussion, student responses to exit-survey questions and instructor observations about the extent to which students completed Wikipedia-editing tasks.
Findings – Students found Wikipedia-editing activities and Wikipedia-related discussions engaging, and as a result they seemed …