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For the launch of the inaugural ‘World Online Debating Championships’ Debatewise are setting themselves a challenge – they want someone from every country in the world to debate on their site by the end of August. The site currently has views from IP addresses in all but 12 countries…
1. Greenland
2. Western Sahara
3. Guinea
4. Niger
5. Chad
6. Central African...

The trend in web collaboration may extend to the academic sphere this summer, as the benefits of online group revision become apparent.
The ‘wiki’ model has been mistrusted by academics for some time now, but it could be approaching a renaissance. Professor Murray Turoff at the New Jersey Institute of Technology claims that the time delay inherent in wikis means students think more carefully about issues – if...