As an assignment in a community college course, my students are asked to find a learning resource in WikiEducator. Finding good learning objects in WE can be difficult, so I have included this assignment to have students find what they thought was complete and interesting. Although there is usually some frustration, they find some amazing WE pages. I'm accumulating a list of pages they discover.
However, sometimes I get more information and feedback than I bargained for... I though this was an interesting comment from one of my students. "Also, the color scheme and design of the website is exactly the same as Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia is known for false information, and cannot be used for research papers. I feel that this site is similar to Wikipedia; therefore, this site's information cannot be trusted." Sigh... Yes, some of our faculty are convinced that Wikipedia and by association, all wikis, especially those that look like Wikipedia because they use Mediawiki are evil and populated by gangs of internet hooligans intent on provide false information to unsuspecting web users. They explicitly forbid the use of Wikipedia. Has anyone else heard of similar credibility issues for WikiEducator content? Is this something that is limiting adoption of WE learning objects? ..Valerie
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