Category: Policy and theory

Turning Wikipedia into textbooks: Tools, Ideals and Accessibility

by Dominik Lukeš ·

Wikipedia just announced that you can download collections of articles in the ePub format. That reminded me that it has had a curation feature called Book Creator for 2 years. I don't think it has been getting as much use as I would expect but now with the ePub export, I think it has the…

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Putting lectures in their place with cautious optimism

by Dominik Lukeš ·

Donald Clark takes the lecture to task ( again ) as being inappropriate as a form of instruction. This time citing as evidence a recent paper published in Science ( available here ). This post started as a comment on his blog but outgrew the comment format. So here it is. It is hard to…

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