John C. Nesbit works in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, where he teaches and does research in educational psychology and educational technology. His primary research interests are self-regulated learning with multimedia, evaluation of multimedia learning resources, methods for analyzing learner interactions with educational software, and the cognitive effects of argumentation. His Erdős number is 6.
Abstracting and assembling information from existing sources is a type of knowledge construction and learning. Wikipedia's editing and discussion tools make that knowledge construction process open, visible, collaborative and quite efficient. The struggles that editors sometimes have in defending their edits, or changing the edits of others, are opportunities for teaching and learning that are not easily had in other settings.
