How Today's College Students use Wikipedia for Course-related Research
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Individual focus and knowledge contribution Lada A. Adamic, Xiao Wei, Jiang Yang, Sean Gerrish, Kevin K Nam, Gavin S. Clarkson How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research Alison J. Head, Michael B. Eisenberg Peer governance and Wikipedia: Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s governance Vasilis Kostakis The role of advertising in financing open access journals Jan Erik Frantsvåg Vanguard, laggard or relic? The possible futures of higher education after the Epistemic Revolution Dion Dennis, Jabbar Al-Obaidi
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- First Monday
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010