Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation.
Background: Academic institutions and libraries are familiar with Wikipedia. There is growing momentum in higher education for using Wikipedia as a learning tool in various contexts. These include, but are not limited to, the use of Wikipedia-based assignments to teach information literacy, science...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 79 - 85 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Canadian Health Libraries Association
Dec2023
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