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Wikipedia U : knowledge, authority, and liberal education in the digital age / Thomas Leitch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and TechnologyPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]Description: ix, 164 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421415352 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1421415356 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.11/2 23
LOC classification:
  • LC 1011 L533w 2014
Contents:
Before Wikipedia -- Teaching against Wikipedia -- Teaching about Wikipedia -- Teaching with Wikipedia -- After Wikipedia.
Summary: Offers vital new lessons about the nature of authority and the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0. 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."-
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LC 1011 L533w 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000144202

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before Wikipedia -- Teaching against Wikipedia -- Teaching about Wikipedia -- Teaching with Wikipedia -- After Wikipedia.

Offers vital new lessons about the nature of authority and the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0. 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."-

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