User:Leighblackall/Wikipedia in Education Symposium, University of Sydney

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/5_April_2013 Wikipedia in Education Symposium. 5 April, 2013. University of Sydney]

Proposal
Why do Universities and the like readily engage in iTunesU and Youtube, but not the Wikimedia projects? If they did engage, how should they and what would be their relationship to the communities of volunteers? Are they a risk to the projects with their force of paid editor advantage, conflicting interests and establishment culture? I wish to discuss these questions with others who have experience using Wikimedia projects inside educational institutions, or who have experience advising against such work. I hope to find collaborators willing to look into these issues and co-auther a paper.

Bio
Leigh started using the Wikimedia projects in 2005, and started using them within institutional education in 2006 when he began working for Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand. In that time he co managed the Wikibook project, 'The Anatomy and Physiology of Animals' (featured), was the primary author on the Wikibook, 'Open Educational Practices: a user guide for organisations' (commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry of Education), and initiated and managed the Wikibook project, 'Sustainable Business' for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment. He attempted to engage Otago Polytechnic with the Wikiversity project in 2006 but found some resistance in the project at the time, but most resistance in the Polytechnic. They elected to engage the Wikieducator project instead. From 2006-2009 Leigh worked with Otago Polytechnic, managing their Wikieducator effort. In 2009 Leigh moved to Canberra to work with the University of Canberra. He instigated and initially managed the 'History of Paralympics Australia Project' across Wikiversity, Wikipedia, Wikinews, and Commons; as well as instigated and managed a submission in Wikiversity to the university's review of their Intellectual Property Policy. Leigh co managed two Recent Changes Camps at Canberra, and has run 3 wikimedia editing workshops for Wikimedia Australia. He is now piloting open educational development at La Trobe University, using the Wikimedia Projects.

Work of note

 * 1) Writing the Wikibook, Open Educational Practices: a user guide for organisations (Otago Polytechnic)
 * 2) Managing the Wikibook project: Sustainable Business (Otago Polytechnic)
 * 3) Co managing the Wikibook: The Anatomy and Physiology of Animals (Otago Polytechnic)
 * 4) Instigating and initially managing Otago Polytechnic's use of Wikieducator (with an urealised intention to migrate to Wikiversity)
 * 5) Instigating and initially managing the History of Paralympics Australia project across Wikiversity, Wikipedia, Wikinews, and Commons (University of Canberra)
 * 6) Instigating and managing a submission to Uni Canberra's review of Intellectual Property Policy in Wikiversity
 * 7) Co managing 2 Recent Changes Camps at the Uni Canberra (2010 and 2011)
 * 8) Supporting the Uni of Canberra's National Institute of Sport Studies into using the Wikiversity platform
 * 9) Assisting the University of Wollongong Journalism course to trial Wikinews and develop the Video Journalism subject on Wikiversity
 * 10) Progressing my own PhD research work on Wikiversity.
 * 11) Now instigating and managing a pilot of open educational development using the WMF projects, primarily WV at this stage, at La Trobe University