A degree of Wikipedia

March 7, 2007 at 3:59 pm

Students at the University of East Anglia in the UK are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course. Wikipedia has recently divided academics when a US university banned the site because of fears that students could reproduce content from it without checking its accuracy. But there is hope when a project such as the middle east course embeds Wikipedia into university courses with tasks like “edit eight articles and then write your own article concerning the subject”.

Read more: Students assessed with Wikipedia [BBC]

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