On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 06:34:36AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote: > >> Also: how would folks feel about requiring that at least one of the > >> instructors at a POSSE teach - or have taught - at the college level? I > >> think there's a lot of value in the professors-teaching-professors > >> model, but could be adding more structure than we actually need.
> * POSSE California, if it goes for a second run with just Karsten and > Alolita, will have to find a professor to co-teach. If I read you correctly, the first run will also have to find a professor to co-teach. > Overall, this seems like a net yea - especially if it encourages people > to get POSSEs together that might not otherwise happen. I'm going to > sleep on this for a day, and then if no objections have popped up in the > meantime, push it through. For some reason this idea rankles me. * Is there maybe more impact when e.g. a high schooler is teaching a POSSE than a professor? * Is it the open source way to require to be taught by someone of an equivalent or higher education level? * Is it a good lesson that the key to entry in to open source for professors requires at least one other professor? * What happens when a now essential co-teacher arrives on the first day with a wildly different set of expectations than are required for actually teaching the course? How is this different from when that happens with a student? (I don't think this last situation is unrecoverable, and it offers a potentially useful teaching moment, but it could also be an unneeded block in a road that is hard enough to get moving on. When it comes to open source, we're never at a loss for teachable moments and being productively lost, no requirement to create them for a classroom's sake.) Other than "professors teaching professors is interesting", what are reasons for this requirement? - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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