“Wikipedia is essential for learning, but problematic for education.” It doesn’t have to be.¹ Wikipedia is the black market of learning², arousing skepticism for challenging two mainstream models of contemporary education. First, it’s part of the same “citizen”-driven knowledge acquisition that has fostered citizen journalists and citizen scientists—and disrupted traditional concepts of credibility. Perhaps even more disruptive, as academia and assessment move to more administrative … Continue reading Black-Market Learning or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Wikipedia