Tuesday, October 19, 2010

What if We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia?


"First, it wouldn’t have formal admissions, said Mr. Staley, director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at Ohio State University. People could enter and exit as they wished. It would consist of voluntary and self-organizing associations of teachers and students “not unlike the original idea for the university, in the Middle Ages,” he said. Its curriculum would be intellectually fluid.
And instead of tenure, it would have professors “whose longevity would be determined by the community,” Mr. Staley said, and who would move back and forth between the “real world” and the university."
Sounds like my kind of school!
READ MORE: What if We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? by Mark Perry

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