On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax abdlomax@yahoo.com wrote:
Back to the immediate topic, suppose there is a group of students who want to learn math. Perhaps they can find a teacher, but suppose now that there is no teacher. Suppose that everyone one of us is such a student, that there are no experts. This, in fact, is the position of real scientists. The "student/teacher" model is for children, and it doesn't necessarily work well even there, and definitely not for deep education, where it's necessary for the student to discover and build understanding out of their own experience. Otherwise "education" becomes simply filling a data storage unit with data, without understanding how to *create* the data (and understanding its limitations). Skilled teachers will lead their students through this process, not just expect them to be baby birds, mouths open to be filled with the wisdom of the teacher.
This is something that we talk a lot about on Yet One Other Website (peeragogy.org).
I am sincerely interested to think about how wikiversity does or does not fit together with other efforts. It certainly can't be insular...