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Knowledge; Facebook The upshot, he declared, will be 'a new form of collective human intelligence, as billions of world citizens interact together, unconstrained by today's monopolies of knowledge or learning opportunities.' ... the things Knowledge gets wrong are far less striking than how much it gets right."
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ticked off a long list of transformative technologies and modes of learning that seem destined to reshape postsecondary instruction globally ... Along with open courseware initiatives, ranging from iTunes University to Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, he cited Google’s Library Project;
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Apparently spammers have been sending out "large numbers" of emails that purport to be requests to users to confirm their Knowledge account, with links to malware sites,
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Wildavsky went on to discuss some of the concerns with "democratized" learning: "Peer learning has its place, but the wisdom of crowds isn't always, well, wise."
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of the recent fundraiser's donation log gained prominence. It appeared to show a million-dollar donation coming from an anonymous source; Paul McNamara of
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the accusations, noting that the organization was just one year old and had been deleted as non-notable, while articles about other, notable
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by an organization called Gay and Lesbian Info Center (GLIC), made after the article about it had been deleted ("
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used the Internet to research which rapper she wanted to collaborate with on her new single – and chose
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Canadian-American humorist and Emmy-Award-winning playwright and screenwriter
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Accidentally anonymized donation, democratized learning and more
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Knowledge featured in an article written by Ben Wildavsky for
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Is globally democratized learning always a good thing?
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Is globally democratized learning always a good thing?
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"Knowledge Arbitration Committee bans 26 Baku wikipedians’ activity"
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