May 23, 2018
(via Reliable Sources) When assigning research to students, it is common for professors to place restrictions such as requiring that sources be cited or come from a peer-reviewed academic source or absolutely outlawing the use of Wikipedia. Students are often criticized for taking the first thing Google gives them rather than taking the time to really analyze what they’re reading, connect it to the course content, and synthesize it into new knowledge. But what happens when a course designer does the same thing? Or worse?