Acquiring Knowledge, Sharing Knowledge – Wikipedia Project in Biopsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr. Lena Gmelch
Format
Seminars, synchronous learning
Keywords
Wikipedia, free knowledge, flipped classroom, peer feedback, collaborative writing
Description
In the months of the first and toughest restrictions to everyday life in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many students sought social contact and closeness to others under the new conditions imposed on us. To this end, communication, collaboration and involvement extended beyond the university setting as the focus of the “Psychobiology” and “Cognitive neuroscience – neurobiological and neurocognitive aspects” psychology seminars. The students developed the technical content of the seminars in accordance with the flipped classroom principle and collaborated to draft short texts consolidating and supplementing the existing, but very short and elementary German Wikipedia articles on “Psychoneuroendocrinology” and “Cognitive neuroscience.” Virtual expert interviews with experienced Wikipedia authors and online tutorials from Wikimedia Deutschland afforded us the necessary skills to integrate article snippets on Wikipedia. In this context, we also held an in-depth discussion on the risks and opportunities of a free online encyclopedia. The aim of the discussion was to enable course participants to develop their own stances on free knowledge and Open Science. A multi-level peer and plenary feedback system allowed students to share their acquired knowledge in the course and served to improve article snippets analogously to the peer feedback system of scientific publication. We are very proud of our contributions to the Wikipedia articles, which are now substantially more sound and detailed than before, making them more useful to psychologists and general users.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoneuroendokrinologie
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kognitive_Neurowissenschaft
Contact
Dr. Lena Gmelch
Voting ID
#LG1