Online revision gets academic approval
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 they write a point, and wait for a friend to respond online, they consider it more than if you were conversing face to face. Additionally, on a wiki, notes are in the public domain and