Monday, May 12, 2008

Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool - Yahoo! News

Interesting times

Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.

Recently, university teachers have swapped student term papers for assignments to write entries for the free online encyclopedia.

Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool - Yahoo! News

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