Wikipedia is a very popular website on the Internet, free of any charge and written by spontaneous editors; each voice is checked and continuously modified by anyone who has the skills to do it. To increase the motivation in learning Pharmacology of fourth year students of Pharmacy degree, it has been proposed to them to participate in drafting several Wikipedia entries regarding selected drugs among those treated during frontal teaching lessons. The Wiki groups started their work at the end of October and finished it in January 2019. Overall, students learned to reformulate knowledge on the drugs, to work in group, to consult various types of sources (databases, articles, texts) and to use a language suitable for inexperienced readers.

Wikipedia in teaching "Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy" to Pharmacy students

Guglielmina Froldi
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2020

Abstract

Wikipedia is a very popular website on the Internet, free of any charge and written by spontaneous editors; each voice is checked and continuously modified by anyone who has the skills to do it. To increase the motivation in learning Pharmacology of fourth year students of Pharmacy degree, it has been proposed to them to participate in drafting several Wikipedia entries regarding selected drugs among those treated during frontal teaching lessons. The Wiki groups started their work at the end of October and finished it in January 2019. Overall, students learned to reformulate knowledge on the drugs, to work in group, to consult various types of sources (databases, articles, texts) and to use a language suitable for inexperienced readers.
2020
Wikipedia in Academia
978-88-6938-198-0
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