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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Look for editorial ratings.

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How can we engage online learners?

Learning with 'e's

Huge attrition rates still exist today in online education, especially in some of the latest forms such as MOOCs. User generated content developed to include blogs, status updates, voting, aggregation, curation, remixing, repurposing and sharing of content, podcasts, wikis, videos, images and other online creation of content.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. So my position has changed completely.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. So my position has changed completely.

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