Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 11, 2008 2:38 PM EDT
Yahoo! News; By Deborah Jones
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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 papers for assignments to write entries for the free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is an "open-source" web site, which means that entries can be started or edited by anyone in the world with an Internet connection.

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