However, a problem of such a strategy would be plagiarism. Whilst this method would encourage the sharing and discussing of ideas, as the Internet is very much an open resource based on the idea of gift economy and digitality, in that nothing is fixed and is open to be edited and re-edited an infinite number of times with no “owner” as it were.
It does however create problems with grading or marking. If a student were to be graded on their specific contributions to a discussion, would their individual work be being assessed, or would it be more accurate to say that it is their ability to find information on the Internet which was being examined?
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Right, and with various digital divides in play, how much of an even playing filed is this approach going to provide.
ReplyDeleteEvenso, I think the biggest problem is that academic (indeed most) awards are given to individuals. And the totally networked 'hive' provides the ability for 'lurkers' to look like workers and piggy-back on other's efforts, whilst gaining reward. This type of 'invisible' plagiarism can be further complicated by technology if Web 3.0 actually works as intended (many theorists think it won't).