4. Inquiry, Critique, and Dissemination of Knowledge: Graduate Students Contributing to Wikipedia

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4. Inquiry, Critique, and Dissemination of Knowledge: Graduate Students Contributing to Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Nicola Simmons.

Overview

Graduate students use existing knowledge and are ultimately expected to add to that knowledge. Students in a Masters of Education entry course were asked to find a Wikipedia page related to the course topics, critique it, and make improvements to it to begin to develop these skills. In this paper, Author examine ways in which their perspectives were transformed (Mezirow, 1991) regarding their roles in knowledge use and construction and how they grew as a result.

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