On 10/27/06, Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin@verizon.net wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
In my talks with the KDE developer people (who want to transfer and develop their entire set of training materials in/to Wikiversity), they suggested they might want to have some way of having a differential level of login for people who were learning and others who are helping others learn. However, I don't personally regard this as "inevitable" - I think we need to discuss this to see if it is desirable for what we're building.
I think it might be useful as long it is strictly under the control of the person logging in. Hopefully this capability can be delivered by adequate labeling of click trails so one can get where one wants/needs to be by following the labeled links.
regards, mirwin
That's a very useful comment, Michael. In fact, this is pretty much what the KDE people want - to outline "paths" that the learner would take to carry out specific tasks. They've painted it as a "structure on top of a web" - the "web" being the whole network of pages on relevant subjects (from core subjects to more peripheral ones), and the "structure" being a network of paths that people could take to learn various skills, whether it's supplemental course on basic skills in C++ combined with advanced PhP, or a clearly outlined path of "this is what you need to be able to do to become a KDE developer from scratch", or whatever.
There are two issues here - how to technically code this course structure capability - and whether or not it is desirable to have people labelled "teachers" and/or "learners".
Cormac