As a very small part-time faculty in Pune University for M Sc Defence Studies students, I can tell you that virtually any and every assgnment has nothing worthwhile to find in the course textbooks but lots in Wikipedia.
My two bits.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Hopefully not starting a flame war here but...
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.ghoda@gmail.com wrote:
[...] The figures might be misleading but they support my earlier theory that wrt English, Indian students still prefer textbooks over Wiki ...
If I had a rupee for every time I saw a 'paper' or 'presentation' from a student who had 'forgotten' to remove the [citation needed] and numbered inline references when they copy pasted from Wikipedia, WMF wouldn't be running a fund raiser :)
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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