Today’s students have little patience for trudging to the library and researching a question on paper. For better or worse, they’re far more likely to jump online and use tools like Google and Wikipedia to try to find answers quickly.
For the New York University College of Dentistry, battling that tendency–since unapproved online sources are often poor substitutes for peer-reviewed textbooks–is a challenge. Fighting fire with fire, the school has gradually worked to make all of the reference materials a student needs to complete a degree, from textbooks to lecture material, available online. It now has some 80 textbooks accessible through a website for reference or download, along with a wealth of other content.
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