When half a dozen students in Neil Waters's Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong.



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Wikipedia Citations Banned at Middlebury
The MIT Tech, MA - 1 hour ago
By Noam Cohen. When half a dozen students in Neil Waters' Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the ...

When half a dozen students in Neil Waters's Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong.



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Wikipedia doesn't make the grade in Vermont
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - 26 minutes ago
History profs will no longer let students use the collaborative online encyclopedia as a source in their papers and reports. By Noam Cohen, New York Times ...

When a half-dozen students in Neil Waters' Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th century Japan, he knew something was wrong. The Jesuits were in "no position to aid a revolution," he said; the few of them in Japan were in hiding. He figured out the problem soon enough. The obscure, though incorrect, information ...

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War on Wikipedia
Commentary, NY - 54 minutes ago
Any college student can tell you that the Encyclopedia Britannica has been replaced by Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia whose entries are written and ...

Wikipedia debate carries on
Middlebury Campus (subscription), VT - 16 minutes ago
Members of the College faculty joined students in an open forum held on Feb. 26 as part of a larger effort to discuss the role of Wikipedia in higher ...

Members of the College faculty joined students in an open forum held on Feb. 26 as part of a larger effort to discuss the role of Wikipedia in higher education. Two presentations sponsored by Ross Commons offered differing treatments of the online encyclopedia and debated the value of open-source technology in academic study.

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Wikipedia's credibility debated by professors
Daily Vidette, IL - 1 hour ago
Recently, the credibility of the popular Web site Wikipedia.com has been debated between students and professors on whether or not it is a good research ...

Recently, the credibility of the popular Web site Wikipedia.com has been debated between students and professors on whether or not it is a good research tool. Now, some schools are taking action and preventing students from being able to cite Wikipedia as a source.

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Professors question merit of Wikipedia citations
Bowdoin Orient, ME - 44 minutes ago
By Nick Day. Wikipedia.org, the popular online encyclopedia, offers users instant access to over a million articles ranging from the Battle of Waterloo to ...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=4yADDIqlOEcJ&imgurl=www.middlebury.edu/NR/rdonlyres/5753622E-CA0F-43F7-8CBA-E99438F86686/0/head_about_left_photo.jpg width=80 height=61 alt="" border=1>Wikipedia in academia: Open forum at Middlebury tackles the issue
Middlebury College News and Events, VT - 31 minutes ago
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Middlebury College history department’s recent decision to ban the use of Wikipedia by students as a primary source in exams and ...

Middlebury Bans Use of Wikipedia
The Amherst Student, MA - 2 hours ago
By Jessie Oh, Managing News Editor. Published Monday March 5, 2007. According to The New York Times, the history department at Middlebury College made a ...

Wikipedia, Academia Have a Love-Hate Relationship
LinuxInsider.com, CA - 28 minutes ago
By Matt Deegan. University of Virginia English professor John Sullivan, who also teaches courses in mass media and American culture, is skeptical of ...

If Thomas Jefferson had a computer, would he have used Wikipedia to research John Locke? Local Virginia academics today have mixed feelings on the online encyclopedia that can be edited by any Web visitor at any time. Some see it as a fresh, more democratic way to collect information that Jefferson would champion; others are more skeptical of it.

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Daffy Duck had a hand in secretly selling guns to Iran in the 1980s. At least that's what a teaching assistant in UF's history department learned while browsing Wikipedia.org.

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Wikipedia an unacceptable academic source
Daily Aztec, CA - 23 minutes ago
AMES, Iowa - When the average college student needs information fast, there aren't many better places to find it than Wikipedia.com. ...

AMES, Iowa - When the average college student needs information fast, there aren't many better places to find it than Wikipedia.com. With useful entries on everything from Chuck Norris to Liechtenstein to the Iowa State Daily, "the free encyclopedia" can be an invaluable resource.

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