Wikipedia U : Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age.
Leitch, Thomas.
Wikipedia U : Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (177 pages) - Tech. edu: a Hopkins Series on Education and Technology Series . - Tech. edu: a Hopkins Series on Education and Technology Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Battle of the Books -- 1 Origin Stories -- 2 Paradoxes of Authority -- 3 The Case against Wikipedia -- 4 Playing the Encyclopedia Game -- 5 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Appendix. Exercises for Exploring Wikipedia and Authority -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, "the encyclopedia game, played online.".
9781421415505
Wikipedia.
Education, Humanistic.
Research-Methodology-Data processing.
Electronic books.
LC1011 .L44 2014
370.11/2
Wikipedia U : Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (177 pages) - Tech. edu: a Hopkins Series on Education and Technology Series . - Tech. edu: a Hopkins Series on Education and Technology Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Battle of the Books -- 1 Origin Stories -- 2 Paradoxes of Authority -- 3 The Case against Wikipedia -- 4 Playing the Encyclopedia Game -- 5 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Appendix. Exercises for Exploring Wikipedia and Authority -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, "the encyclopedia game, played online.".
9781421415505
Wikipedia.
Education, Humanistic.
Research-Methodology-Data processing.
Electronic books.
LC1011 .L44 2014
370.11/2