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The sincerest form of flattery

Our Teaching & Learning Showcase Series continued yesterday with a session on ‘Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin’. Turnitin is an online service which allows educators to check students’ work for similarity with other sources as a tool for … Continue reading

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Digital dissent

I follow several electronic newsgroups to ensure I stay at the front of my research interests. The ever challenging issue of science on Wikipedia cropped up today with an unusually heated debate on the accuracy of information on a page … Continue reading

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24 hours without Wikipedia?

Wikipedia are advertising their intent to black out the English language version of their site for 24 hours. That will provide a great opportunity for data gathering on changes of web page use. I will be watching with interest 🙂

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