Archive for December 13th, 2005

Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

With all the recent hoopla about Wikipedia, this artical is very interesting.via digg:
The scientific magazine “Nature” has compared 42 articles in both the encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Experts in their field were given the task to check for factual errors. To the surprise of nature, both encyclopedias were containing similar amounts of errors.

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Michigan: Online HS Course Required to Graduate

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

via techdirt:

Michigan’s state board of education is thinking about requiring high-school students to take at least one course online to graduate. The thinking behind the proposal is that it will help ensure kids are up to speed on computers before entering the workforce or going to college, but it’s hard to see one online course [...]