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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
How P2P Will Change Collaborative Learning - Judith V. Boettcher, Campus Technology
Once associated with illegal file sharing and RIAA lawsuits, peer-to-peer services may now be the future of eLearning. HOW WILL eLEARNING change as the next generation of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications becomes commonplace? Might P2P hold the seed of great pedagogical wins for learning and collaboration? During the first wave of P2P, we had little time to think about the possibilities these tools might have for learning. After all, our first general awareness of P2P focused on legal issues and the protection of copyright and intellectual property; six years ago, the wildly popular Napster file-sharing application made P2P technologies almost synonymous with illegal music sharing. (Today, Napster is a legal online music store.)
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