50 FCT, Nasarawa teachers trained on Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation, a subsidiary of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, has organised a three-week training on reading Wikipedia in the classroom for junior and senior secondary school teachers in the FCT and Nasarawa State.

The training, which was organised in collaboration with the FCT Education Resource Centre (ERC), had 50 teachers in attendance.

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The Team Lead for the Wikimedia education team which conducted the training, Ismail Atiba, said it was a free professional training programme designed for teachers to learn how to integrate Wikipedia as a learning tool in the classroom.