“Futures of Learning:” Wikimedia Foundation’s Jimmy Wales May 17

As SCIL’s monthly lecture series winds up for the academic year Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales comes to Wallenberg Hall at 7 p.m. on May 17. The lecture series, which is free and open to the public, features international scholars, policy makers, researchers and educators whose work is transforming education today.

Jimmy Wales is a well-known figure in the world of wikis -- the open content web forum that fosters online discussion and community. His foundation aims to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects that are accessible to anyone free of charge. In addition to the multilingual general encyclopedia Wikipedia, the Foundation manages a multi-language dictionary and thesaurus, Wiktionary, an encyclopedia of quotations, and collections of e-books for children and adults. Wales will discuss his revolutionary work and the impact of wikis on the world of education and technology.

To listen to other “Futures of Learning” lectures from this year visit SCIL’s video archive at: http://scil.stanford.edu/video/index.htm

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