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
--- Andreas <awolf002(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Michael Wehrle wrote:
I just came across this list and wanted to pose a
question to all list
members as I am new to wikiversity. Are free
online degrees through
wikiversity in the works? And if not, why not?
What is keeping them
from being able to offer completely free online
degrees?
In my opinion, Wikiversity should never award
degrees.
The reason for this is based on the fact that a
degree has its value
in being accepted by people outside of the degree
giving institution.
This would mean that the basis of the degree needs
to be under some sort
of control (or at least must be certified) by people
outside of
Wikiversity. From this I conclude that the
curriculum and learning
resources would *no longer be free*. (Free as in
"liberty," not as in
"beer").
In my mind this means we have choice: Either we
must become a type of
Citizendium-versity, with "authorities" blessings
the content and then
"we" can award degrees, or we should never try to
put up "giving out
degrees" as a goal, in the first place. I definitely
prefer the latter
option.
Just my 2c.
Andreas =:-)
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