Christina Carney: Empowering Students through WikiEdu

Photo of wooden blocks that spell out the word "wiki"

Christina Carney, Assistant Professor in Women's & Gender Studies at MU, shares how she uses the WikiEdu Wikipedia Student Program's free tools and training in her classes.

She assigns students to write or enhance Wikipedia articles, empowering them to share their knowledge of course-related topics that are missing or underrepresented. The Wikipedia Student Program is accepting submissions for the Fall 2023 term.

Author

Liz DuPlessis

Liz du Plessis, M.Ed., Ph.D.

Manager of Instructional Design

Dr. Liz du Plessis is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism (1999) and Indiana University's U.S. history doctoral program (2009). She discovered her love for distance education while teaching correspondence and online courses for Indiana University. She earned a master of education in information science and learning technologies from Mizzou in 2011. Since then, she has been an instructional designer for the California Community Colleges system, MU Health Care and Missouri Online. She now serves as an instructional design manager for Missouri Online and has taught as an adjunct online instructor for the MU Department of History.