Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Research Methods Beyond Google

Take a quick look at this article from "Insider Higher Education" on the need to expand research beyond Google and combat intellectual complacency at the university level. It presumes that most students want to pursue intellectual competency and not simply work for grades. It may also assume that students can become engaged by immersing themselves in research topics and then thinking about how to formulate their own ideas, when much of today's directions point to the collection of "factoids" as discussion capital.

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