It isn't the course that's the issue. It's the Meta portion, the governance of the how, why, who.
So just to make up an example, you create a course on How to Hunt Quail. Now some group of individuals (or one with puppets), creates a new *policy* that only people with approved credentials can offer courses, and then they create a "Credential Group" who approves credentials, and work it so you can't get approved. That's just a made-up example of how "governance" can attack "content". Every wiki type org with which I've been involved has these same meta or governance issues. Those with a lot of time on their hands can manipulate the system into supporting their own view of how things should *run*. It's not the content that's the issue. -----Original Message----- From: Fred Bauder <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Education <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 9:13 am Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia > In my personal opinion, all MOOCs suffer from, not the coursework per se, > but the lack of an open and accomodating governance model. Governance is > usually the *last* part of any network that is implemented, so early > adopters are mostly ostracized by game players whose only goal is to > enforce their view through a keener knowledge of the methods. How would the course be structured if it was the way you liked? Fred _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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