Wikipedia U : knowledge, authority, and liberal education in the digital age /
Thomas Leitch.
- ix, 164 pages ; 23 cm.
- Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology .
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."-