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::'''Fear of Change'''
:::''It is a fact that '''most people are hesitant to accept change ''' (even if it will benefit them in the future)''.
::'''Fear of Commitment (especially time)'''
:::''Ironically, people may see '''an "additional workload" incurred''' in the learning-curve during their very busy-busy lives, '''but not realizing that it will "pay-off" and will definitely reduce their workload''', not only for volunteer activities, but in their personal lives in the not-to-distant future''.
::*'''Jotting notes with pen and pencils'''
:::''WIKIs did not exist when many of us were educated.''
::*'''Negative Reinforcement that collaboration is associated with cheating'''. :::''Students today are '''learning how to collaborate in order to be successful in their future lives'''. This directive has been adopted into student curriculum since this is the required needs in skill that business and our society demands from our future societycitizens''.
::*'''Negative and sometimes hostile attitudes of WIKIs among Instructors'''. In this rapid adjustment into the "information age", sometimes the students should be training the instructors, and leave the instructor to teach 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'''.
::*'''Corporations trying to compete and capitalize upon the "universal benefits" of on-line collaboration'''. For example, free software proponents such as Richard Stallman see the term "cloud computing" nothing more than a marketing scheme. He has collaborated online with many groups of people that has generated a tremendous amount of free software that benefits society.
