[Foundation-l] Structure of Wikiversity (was Re: Using 'publish this page' )

[Fred Bauder]

$20  per term is quite modest, perhaps there is something to the  
corporate takeover I am missing. Signed up anyway and will try it. No  
doubt I will gain insight.

Fred

On Sep 10, 2005, at 7:06 AM, Robert Scott Horning wrote:

> Another group that is much more modest, and the one I would like to  
> use as a model for Wikiversity, is http://www.vu.org/, Virtual  
> University. This project started out as an education-based dial-up  
> BBS in the San Francisco bay area where people would get together  
> and share ideas and hold on-line classes.  When wide-spread  
> internet connectivity started to come around, they moved to  
> internet servers and continued to teach classes.  Most of their  
> classes were completely free in the beginning, and a very  
> controvercial decision was made to start charging students for  
> "attending classes".  It is a modest fee, and mainly to help  
> support the server farm including IRC servers.  The instructors are  
> still largely volunteers, and rarely do they even use textbooks.   
> In this regard Wikiversity is already ahead of VU with the  
> Wikibooks project. In many ways I would like to see Wikiversity be  
> more like the way VU was before the "corporate takeover" of the  
> project.