Peer To Peer Education - The Netcohort Institute
It's time to turn the page.
The Netcohort Institute does not just require a better user interface than BFU - it requires a whole new approach to education. The time spent developing the current platform was not wasted, we successfully found many approaches that will not work.
Lets start from bare ground and put out a few ideas of what we think is needed.
A way for creative project teams to form, self-regulate, and manage reputation for future projects. To really have value we need a web 2.0 approach - let the students develop the courses they need - let all students vote their projects up or down.
What we need is
and a lot of stuff we haven't thought through yet. Maybe that is your job also.
You have the audacious dreams - you can make them come true.
What sort of resources can a P2P educational network offer? As a start look at this Squidoo lens on the Royalton Raid created by Evelyn Saenz as a course for unschoolers. While not college level, it sure is interesting, and provides a compelling picture. To adjust to a college level course you could take the frame work at the BFU lens under the heading Create Your Own College Course.
In fact Squidoo is a resource we may want to use for course creation. It is easy, enjoyable, and you can actually earn a little money with it.
Think of thousands of students creating courses, thousands of students voting on what is most valuable, you deciding on what is most valuable to you.
Then think of thousands of students joining on project teams and creating value for all of us.
The rest of the institute will not be so easy - it will take visionary volunteers that want to shape the future of education.
This is just the start, the reputation you build within your teams will qualify you for inclusion in serious start up projects - within a Netcort Institute incubator, or on your own.
Want a first assignment?
Make a lens, Put a BFU or Netcohort stub onto Wikipedia - or add to one already there. Put a comment here, or on Evelyn's lens.
This is too big and too important for just me, The Netcohort Institute needs all of us.
Allan
The Netcohort Institute does not just require a better user interface than BFU - it requires a whole new approach to education. The time spent developing the current platform was not wasted, we successfully found many approaches that will not work.
Lets start from bare ground and put out a few ideas of what we think is needed.
A way for creative project teams to form, self-regulate, and manage reputation for future projects. To really have value we need a web 2.0 approach - let the students develop the courses they need - let all students vote their projects up or down.
What we need is
- An open system like Wikipedia or Mozilla
- A community / communications organization like an online poker room with a general lounge and breakout rooms
- A reputation measurement similar to what e-bay had
- A voting system like Digg employs
and a lot of stuff we haven't thought through yet. Maybe that is your job also.
You have the audacious dreams - you can make them come true.
What sort of resources can a P2P educational network offer? As a start look at this Squidoo lens on the Royalton Raid created by Evelyn Saenz as a course for unschoolers. While not college level, it sure is interesting, and provides a compelling picture. To adjust to a college level course you could take the frame work at the BFU lens under the heading Create Your Own College Course.
In fact Squidoo is a resource we may want to use for course creation. It is easy, enjoyable, and you can actually earn a little money with it.
Think of thousands of students creating courses, thousands of students voting on what is most valuable, you deciding on what is most valuable to you.
Then think of thousands of students joining on project teams and creating value for all of us.
The rest of the institute will not be so easy - it will take visionary volunteers that want to shape the future of education.
This is just the start, the reputation you build within your teams will qualify you for inclusion in serious start up projects - within a Netcort Institute incubator, or on your own.
Want a first assignment?
Make a lens, Put a BFU or Netcohort stub onto Wikipedia - or add to one already there. Put a comment here, or on Evelyn's lens.
This is too big and too important for just me, The Netcohort Institute needs all of us.
Allan
Labels: distributed network, educational network, home school, Netcohort Institute, P2P education, peer to peer education, social network, unschooling, web 2.0
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