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:::''WIKIs did not exist when many of us were educated.''
::'''On-line Collaboration is Cheating'''
:::''Students today are '''learning how to collaborate in order to be successful in their future lives'''. This directive has been adopted into student provincial school curriculum since this is the <u>skill </u> that business and our society <u>demands </u> from our future citizens''. Unfortunately, older generations have been conditioned to avoid open-collaboration.
::'''Negative Perceptions Among Instructors'''
:::In this rapid adjustment into the "information age", sometimes the students should be training the instructors, and leave the instructor to focus on teaching timeless concepts such as '''critical thinking''', '''research techniques''' and '''team-building'''. If properly utilized and monitored, '''instructors could be "leading the students by example" to prepare them to collaborate in a proactive manner to benefit society, their workplace, and their personal lives'''.