Crystal Fulton, Rebecca O'Neill, and Marta Bustillo

“ A collaboration among Wikipedia, academic staff, and the library to help second-year undergraduate students at University College Dublin become digital creators through publishing in Wikipedia began with the common objective to help students develop core digital competencies for digital citizenship. The course instructor had long liaised with the library to deepen student learning of information skills, with the college liaison librarian visiting the classroom to help teach particular information skills, such as referencing. ”

“ Higher education instruction continues to help students acquire learning and critical thinking skills that will serve them in the workplace. Bringing together these often parallel efforts provides students with an opportunity to excel in their development holistically. Currently, University College Dublin’s Library is developing a programmatic approach to teaching academic integrity to students across the university, and the experience of this collaboration among Wikipedia, the librarian, and the instructor will feed into the planning for that project. ”

“ As common goals for information literacy became evident, a more formal collaborative partnership among the instructor, librarian, and Wikipedian was established. The collaboration brings together diverse, relevant expertise to design and deliver an effective learning experience. From guest visits, we have moved to a deeper engagement with student learning so that partners work collaboratively in considering course content and scaffolding learning across the course. As a result, students find they are introduced to key concepts and practical application systematically. ”

“ By experiencing the sometimes highly exacting demands of fellow editors to adhere to Wikipedia editing guidelines and policies, students are exposed to an assessment of their work unlike anything within traditional academia. In some cases, when students have not adhered to Wikipedia guidelines and conventions, they have had all of their edits removed or reverted, and in an extreme example, a group of students were blocked from editing Wikipedia owing to persistent copyright infringement. ”

“ The academic integrity session was developed as part of a university-wide plagiarism prevention effort with contribution from UCD Library (University College Dublin Library, 2019) . The session was designed by members of the library and included a class discussion about the nature of plagiarism; giving students a set of specific scenarios and asking them to decide whether they constituted plagiarism (University College Dublin Library, 2013) ”

“ Miscellany Expanding Citizenship: Information Published by Government Selecting and Utilizing Channels of Communication Effectively Students examine a range of pathways to information through formally structured literature channels, as well as informal channels, including user-generated content, learning how to select pathways to information and apply appropriately to problem-solving. Evaluating information is emphasized, enabling students to identify fake news, misinformation, and disinformation. ”

“ As a number of these people competed in the Olympic Games of the early twentieth century, the students were confronted with periods in history where Irish people competed first under the British flag, followed by a period in which Irish athletes were forced to participate as part of the British team with some bringing their own Irish flags to fly in protest, and finally a period after Irish independence during which some Irish nationalistic athletic associations refused to allow their members to participate in the Olympic Games at all. ”

“ They submit a reflection in which they critically analyze their learning. Importantly, they must identify what they have learned, report emotions attending this learning, relate their new knowledge to previous knowledge, validate and integrate these perspectives such that they challenge their previously held assumptions and approaches to their studies, and plan for future use of their newly acquired skills. The reflection helps to embed skills acquisition further, by encouraging students to review their learning holistically and to understand what it is they have learned and why. ”

“ The collaboration has provided new insights into the needs of students regarding the development of digital literacy skills. From an academic perspective, the collaboration has highlighted the different facets of instruction and learning, which can be brought together to support student learning. Academic libraries have also long offered instruction and assistance to students as part of their development of core literacy skills and competences. ”

“ They discovered that women’s biographic entries in works like the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) are subentries in articles about their fathers, brothers, or husbands rather than entries in their own right. ”

“ Information and data literacy Communication and collaboration Digital content and creation Safety Problem Solving While university students may be assumed to possess these critical skills for active and full participation in higher education, researchers (e.g., Head & Eisenberg, 2011; Martzoukou et al., 2020) have observed gaps in students’ information skills and a reliance on Internet search engines to find information. ”