Cormac Lawler wrote:
Hi Robert,
On 5/1/07, Robert Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
I did come across a legitimate educational institution a while back that
wanted to co-sponsor an on-line learning experience through Wikiversity,
where this other organization would be offering the actual educational
credits and accreditation. I don't know how much follow-through
happened on the idea, but it is something that has happened (they came
to us, not the other way around BTW) and may happen in the future in
other situations.
What institution was this? Where was it proposed/discussed?
Cormac
The institution in this case was the Rochester, New Hampshire (USA)
Public School District where they wanted to use Wikiversity as a means
to help members of their community to eventually work to earn a high
school diploma. Details about this can be found at this URL:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Study_help_desk/Archive_%28July_2006…
Yes, that is Wikibooks, not Wikiversity, although I did bring this issue
up at the Colloquium in this reference to the Wikibooks request:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/January_2007…
It should be of note that it was the assistant superintendent who made
the initial offer, and I would presume that he would also be in a
position to be able to get actual high school credits accepted... at
least for the state of New Hampshire. As I mentioned on the Colloquium,
high school credits would be quite a bit easier to justify, as would
granting a high school diploma.
I have no idea if this was followed up with any sort of contact to this
superintendent, and I know that nothing was ever really done along these
lines. I was a bit busy at the time, but I felt that the larger
Wikiversity community was made aware of the offer. It would be
unfortunate if this offer made in good faith was rejected simply out of
neglect.
-- Robert Horning