This article discusses how one professor, Martha Groom from the University of Washington-Bothell "transforms" wikipedia into a classroom assignment. She uses wikipedia as a tool, in which students edit an existing article or post an original one (rather than writing an environmental history paper). Professor Groom states, " Wikipedia has been vilified as a petri dish for misinformation". While students found that writing online allowed them to receive "better than average" grades versus writing a paper.
Reference:
Workology section (unknown author). (Nov. 6,2007). "Wikipedia becomes class work" (Metro)
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