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Enculturating a Community of Action: Health Professions Educators' Perspectives on Teaching With Wikipedia.

Paolo C MartinLauren A MaggioHeather MurrayJohn M Willinsky
Published in: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (2022)
Findings build on known benefits, such as providing a real-world collaborative project that contextualizes students' learning experiences. They also echo known challenges, such as the resource-intensive nature of teaching with Wikipedia. The findings of this study reveal the potential of Wikipedia to enculturate HPE students within a situated learning context. They also present implications for HPE programs that are considering implementing Wikipedia and faculty development needed to help instructors harness crowd-sourced information tools' pedagogic opportunities as well as anticipate their challenges.
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