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Wikipedia: How to analyse an article for accuracy

March 22, 2007 – 8:09 am

Wikipedia’s use in education continues to be controversial. I think that’s a pity, because the Wikipedia contains huge amounts of useful information, and - perhaps even more importantly - using it teaches very important lessons in the analysis of information sources.
In this post I’m going to summarize a few simple methods for analyzing any given […]

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Global Text Project: Free Wiki Textbooks

September 8, 2006 – 9:01 pm

The Global Text Project:
The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a Web site. Distribution will also be possible via paper, CD, or DVD. Our goal initially is to focus on content development and Web distribution, and we will work with relevant authorities to facilitate dissemination by other means […]

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