On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:24 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > This reads like a radical anti-egalitarian manifesto by some young > Internet-based firebrand ... then I got to the end and my jaw dropped > at the author's job.
Heh, I'm obviously closer to this space than you - I wasn't surprised at all. Here's a blog post you may be interested in, from another small Australian university: http://ptsefton.com/2010/08/12/my-fave-two-reasons-not-to-release-opencourseware.htm It's worth pointing out, though, that where Wikipedia has been a runaway success, Wikiversity wasn't. Structured learning content (ie, courses) is not the same as unstructured snippets of information. And OpenCourseWare is not, as Jim Barber implies, "user-generated knowledge" in the same way that Wikipedia is. It's produced by paid experts, who just happen to give it away for free. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
