Ray et all,
Ray Saintonge kirjoitti 2.5.2007 kello 20:17:
Why should Wikiversity be a servant of the employers? If the employers want to maximize the value of their enterprise. By providing such guarantees for employers Wikiversity would adopt the values of the employers, and become caught up in their partucular yuppie rat-race.
Exactly. This is why I pointed out what are the degrees really for and about. With this I was trying to make it clear that they are not very much according to the idea of "Free Learning Community", academy, popular education or free school.
Still, I do not mind if taking studies on Wikiversity will make some people more competence in a labor market.
Your second point subsumes that Wikiversity is a player in the market place, and that it is somehow in competition with similar institutions.
Well, I didn't take any stand when opening the concept of a degree. I fully agree with your conclusions.
Even if it were to concede that as a good thing, who would accept the responsibility of all the administrivia that it involves? I doubt that it would be an enlightening use of volunteer time. If we pay someone to do this the entire character of the project would change.
I do not see here any extra administrative work involved. You simply write the courses you have took in the Wikiversity in your user page with links to the course pages. You just build your own "Wikiversity study record" on your own user page. All based on trust and transparency. Shit will happen but I am pretty sure that the benefits of openness are greater than if having some "reliable record keeping body" working on this.
For some employers beiing into new things would suggest someone who is chronically unable to focus on the task at hand, and thus not a productive employee. There are jobs where innovation is an asset, but they are a minority.
You are right again. Depending on the job you are applying for, you may or may not add your Wikipedia courses in your CV. if you are looking for a job from my research group, please do. :-)
- Teemu
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