On 5/1/07, Frank Erdman frankerdman2000@yahoo.com wrote:
My understanding was that wikiversity would not itself "grant" degrees. Rather the degree "granting" would be thru a proxy, and the coursework via another proxy.
For example, a technical/science degree program via wikiversity could have something like the online branch of Thomas Edison State College of New Jersey be the proxy to grant a degree, and the coursework provider could be MIT. Thus, wikiversity itself neither provides coursework nor degrees, rather, via proxys such as in this example, it could, hypothetically, "facillitate", rather than "grant" degrees.
Does this sound more or less correct in terms of the general approach to degrees with wikiversity?
Frank Erdman
I think that's perfectly sound - bearing in mind that it's still only a *potential* rather than any kind of concrete proposal. Wikiversity is also trying to develop the coursework, though, as you say, it could (and I believe should) be integrating with other open educational resources/platforms to best facilitate whatever type of program the particular learner/teacher wants.
Cormac