On 5/1/07, Frank Erdman <frankerdman2000(a)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