Johnson slapped on wrist for recommending Wikipedia | E-learning | EducationGuardian.co.uk: "UK universities could well take similar measures, predicted Will Murray, director of a plagiarism advisory service for British higher education.
'There's a general feeling that students are regarding Wikipedia as an authority without checking to see if it is or not. It's a site that should be treated with scepticism and it's those skills that higher education is interested in getting across to students,' said Mr Murray, of the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc)."
Is Wikipedia the educational version of cribbing off your mates and then discovering that actually your mates knew less about the subject than you did?
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Jon Udell: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie
Jon Udell: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie
If you've ever wondered how a wiki page is constructed... this is a great little tour of an obscure page floating around wikipedia. An interesting look at the production of a collaborative piece of online text. Satisfies my inner geek anyway!
If you've ever wondered how a wiki page is constructed... this is a great little tour of an obscure page floating around wikipedia. An interesting look at the production of a collaborative piece of online text. Satisfies my inner geek anyway!
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