Can Wikipedia improve students’ work?
Experiment reveals that technologies that are often dismissed because of their crowd-sourcing nature can actually be useful in the classroom. [Source: National Post via Bennett Helm]
View ArticleWikipedia Gradually Accepted in College Classrooms
Professors don’t want students to rely on the site but admit it’s a useful starting point for research. [Source: US News & World Reports]
View ArticleCollaborative Learning for the Digital Age
The author suggests modeling a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. [Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
View ArticleDropbox redesign brings photo viewer, better file management
Dropbox has launched a major redesign, simplifying many file management tasks and bringing a new video and photo viewer. The first thing you’ll notice in the new Dropbox UI is the action bar which lets...
View ArticleProfessor Hopes to Support Free Course With Kickstarter, the ‘Crowd Funding’...
Free online courses for the masses are all the rage—and many are being run by start-ups hoping to profit by selling related materials and services. Jim Groom thinks that’s too commercial, so he’s...
View ArticleStart-Up Hopes to Create Free Digital Versions of Published Books
If African scholar Ruth Finnegan’s fund-raising campaign via a new site called Unglue.it is successful, the anthropologist’s classic and a definitive study on oral literature in Africa would be back in...
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