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Ramirez, Michael; Marquez, Amanda – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is accessed by over 1.5 billion users each month, yet remains stigmatized in the academic world. Many faculty demonstrate reluctance in allowing students to use Wikipedia as part of their research and writing projects due to the open access nature of the site and have all but banned its use in their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Encyclopedias
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McKenzie, Brian; Brown, Jonathan; Casey, Denis; Cooney, Adeline; Darcy, Eamon; Giblin, Susan; Ní Mhórdha, Máire – College Teaching, 2018
Wikipedia can serve as an effective, engaging tool for teaching key information literacy skills. This article examines the experience of seven faculty members and over four hundred students who edited Wikipedia as part of a first-year seminar. We review the literature surrounding the pedagogical value of Wikipedia and then discuss our goals in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Information Literacy, College Faculty, College Freshmen
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Hirci, Nataša; Pisanski Peterlin, Agnes – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
It has been argued that the growing impact of new technologies on society should be reflected in education in response to the digital generation's extensive dependence on digital tools. This paper focuses on the incorporation of digital technologies into translator training by comparing the benefits and drawbacks of "wikis," a…
Descriptors: Translation, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Comparative Analysis
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Petrucco, Corrado – Research on Education and Media, 2018
The academic world initially regarded Wikipedia with misgivings for a number of reasons, including the uncertainty concerning the reliability of its content, its anonymous authorship and the fact that students often use it as an easy way to cut and paste material for their coursework. In recent years, however, university instructors' perception of…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Teaching Methods
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Schultz, Jennifer L.; Agrimonti, Lisa M.; Higbee, Jeanne L. – American Journal of Business Education, 2016
Graduate course assignments that are pragmatic, challenging, scaffold prior learning, and support academic career aspirations can be difficult to create and even more problematic to assess for even the most experienced faculty. This paper presents a class assignment that incorporated a real-world journal reviewing assignment into an elective…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Assignments, Business Administration Education, Prior Learning
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Trent, Margaret; Gurvitch, Rachel – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2015
Recently, interest in using video to promote the reflective practice in preservice teacher education has increased. Video recordings of teaching incidents inspire the reflective practice in preservice teachers by allowing them to analyze instruction and view teaching in an objective light. As an extension of video recording, video editing has…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Preservice Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Editing
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Shane-Simpson, Christina; Che, Elizabeth; Brooks, Patricia J. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
To test the feasibility of Wikipedia editing in large undergraduate psychology classrooms, we engaged groups of students in a large introductory-level Human Development course (N = 110) in editing Wikipedia articles to improve psychology-related content. Students attended in-class workshops and received online support to develop skills. They…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Web Sites
Chatpunnarangsee, Kwanjira – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore ways of incorporating web-based concordancers for the purpose of teaching English collocations. A mixed-methods design utilizing a case study strategy was employed to uncover four specific dimensions of corpus use by twenty-four students in two classroom sections of a writing course at a university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Worksheets
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory