• Teaching with Wikipedia — It’s being done around the world, writing for Wikipedia as a way to teach such skills as media literacy, critical thinking, expository writing, collaboration and research ...

As a teacher, you become accustomed to hearing your students say some pretty outlandish things. Still, when a student told me, “Mr. Freder doesn’t let us use Wikipedia,” I was rocked with incredulity.

I’ve written a number of ProfHacker articles on integrating Wikipedia into your classroom, such as this post on tips and tricks for teaching with Wikipedia and how to organize your own Wikipedia ...

Could Wikipedia's infoboxes get a boost from a centralized database? Say next week there is an election in France (okay it's not for a few more weeks, but just suppose) and suppose that the challenger ...

About a decade ago, Amin Azzam, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, often told his medical students not to research health information on Wikipedia out of concern ...

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 ...

Constantly correcting content – like what you find on Wikipedia – has got people all shook up. From www.shutterstock.com “Also: please note that we NEVER link to Wikipedia,” reads the email about an ...

Most professors frown on students relying too much on Wikipedia. But for some medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, it’s going to be the foundation of the curriculum for at ...

Using Wikipedia in academics is now an embedded feature, and so universities must do more to help them to utilize the user-generated encyclopedia, reveals a new study. Using Wikipedia in academics is ...

Say next week there is an election in France (okay it's not for a few more weeks, but just suppose) and suppose that the challenger, Francois Hollande, ekes out a victory over Nicolas Sarkozy, the ...