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Wiki Collaboration at Westminster?

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::'''Negative Reinforcement that collaboration is associated with cheating'''
:::''Students today are '''learning how to collaborate in order to be successful in their future lives'''. This directive has been adopted into student curriculum since this is the skill that business and our society demands from our future citizens''.
::*'''Negative and sometimes hostile attitudes of WIKIs among Perceptions Among Instructors'''. :::In this rapid adjustment into the "information age", sometimes the students should be training the instructors, and leave the instructor to teach focus on teaching timeless concepts such as '''critical thinking''', '''research techniques''' and '''team-building'''. If properly utilized and monitored, '''instructors could be "leading the students by example" to prepare them to collaborate in a proactive manner to benefit society, their workplace, and their personal lives'''.::*'''Corporations trying Private Interests''':::Trying to compete and capitalize upon own a concept can be a very dangerous thing. When people mention that I should copyright the "universal benefits/Guide on the Side/" of on-line collaborationComputer Lab resource, I immediately respond, ''"that would immediately destroy what I have created"''. For exampleI adopt the attitude, "what you give usually will come back ten-fold". Instead of limiting that resource only to the Westminster Computer Lab, free it should be freely available for the World to benefit. Many private interests are trying to compete to control (what I consider) to be the next big wave which is online storage and document manipulation. Free software proponents such as '''Richard Stallman ''' see the industry term '''"cloud computing" ''' as nothing more than a '''"marketing schemegimmick"'''. He has Many computer program developers have collaborated online with many groups of people that has generated a tremendous amount of free software that benefits societyfor decades before the term "cloud computing" became fashionable...
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