On 5/1/07, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio@gmail.com> wrote:

My own personal take on free online degrees is that it is completely
unrealistic to be expecting to do this self-sufficiently - however,
creating partnerships with accredited institutions that would grant
degrees (or some sort of credit) for work done in Wikiversity could be
a realistic option.

I agree. Personally, I think it hurts the project more than it helps it to toy with ideas of granting degrees, as it's probably not going to happen. There are plenty of places online who will give you degrees that are essentially worthless; I'd rather Wikiversity not join them. We're a place of independent, leisure study, and I'd prefer we preserve this easy-going, liberal take to education, rather than replace it with the highly-structured, goal-oriented, and restrictive curriculum that would be needed for us to become a degree-granting institution. Plus, I find that degrees tend to get in the way of education :).

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