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Wikipedia provides great opportunities for students to learn about the construction of knowledge while contributing to it by analyzing and writing for the online encyclopedia. Written by a very active contributor to Wikipedia and the scholarship surround its development ,this article provides a very useful and concise introduction for anybody interested in teaching with Wikipedia.

Multiple Kenyon faculty have assigned Wikipedia article creation as class projects, or participated in scholarly "write-ins" to expand Wikipedia's coverage in a targeted area.

This article focuses on the digital literacy gains from wikipedia assignments, and they can help improve the quality of materials available on the web.

Moving from the use of open educational resources (OERs) to an "open educational practice" helps students to understand themselves as knowledge creators in a community, and not just as information consumers. This article focuses on class projects to edit Wikipedia articles, which is only one example of an open educational practice, but an easy one to start with.

Very interesting stuff in this interview about public scholarship and open educational resources, and student privacy in digital scholarship.

HASTAC's Pedagogy Project is a website collecting syllabi and course projects which use digital tools or highly collaborative approaches. If you're wondering how to use new forms of communication in assignments, or if you've got a great example to share, this will be a great resource!

A fair number of faculty have told me that their remote teaching experience showed the benefits of a more flexible syllabus. Here's one example of how to give students options for a final paper/project, but the most important part may be the discussion of how Professor Katopodis generates these options with her students.