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Monday, September 08, 2008
Wikipedia: Not for Extra Credit - Ed Moltzen, CRN.com
The folks at Microsoft-purchased search outfit Powerset have found a lot of popularity among college students who use their search engine to wade through Wikipedia for class assignments. Professors, apparently, hate Wikipedia. Powerset says it commissioned a study by Peanut Labs which turned up some interesting numbers: *Though 90 percent of students have used Wikipedia to complete an assignment, a surprising 73 percent of students have been explicitly told by their professor not to use Wikipedia. * Also, about a quarter of students always use Wikipedia when they're completing an assignment.
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