On 10/27/06, Michael R. Irwin <michael_irwin(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
In my talks with the KDE developer people (who want to transfer and
develop their entire set of training materials in/to Wikiversity),
they suggested they might want to have some way of having a
differential level of login for people who were learning and others
who are helping others learn. However, I don't personally regard this
as "inevitable" - I think we need to discuss this to see if it is
desirable for what we're building.
I think it might be useful as long it is strictly under the control of
the person logging in. Hopefully this capability can be delivered by
adequate labeling of click trails so one can get where one wants/needs
to be by following the labeled links.
regards,
mirwin
That's a very useful comment, Michael. In fact, this is pretty much
what the KDE people want - to outline "paths" that the learner would
take to carry out specific tasks. They've painted it as a "structure
on top of a web" - the "web" being the whole network of pages on
relevant subjects (from core subjects to more peripheral ones), and
the "structure" being a network of paths that people could take to
learn various skills, whether it's supplemental course on basic skills
in C++ combined with advanced PhP, or a clearly outlined path of "this
is what you need to be able to do to become a KDE developer from
scratch", or whatever.
There are two issues here - how to technically code this course
structure capability - and whether or not it is desirable to have
people labelled "teachers" and/or "learners".
Cormac