[MD] Idea....maybe

[Michael Hamilton]

Gav,

Having just received my A-Level results (they were good, but thats not
the point), what you said about the most crucial work we do being
graded and then just thrown in the bin really resonated with me. An A
grade is good to see, but in a lot of ways it is a hell of a lot less
valuable than the work that produced it.

You might be interested by www.everything2.com . It's a riot of
cross-pollination. Amongst a jillion other things, people use it to
share their school/college/uni work.

Mike

On 8/18/06, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> i was thinking.......
> i tried uni out again this year and enjoyed it a lot:
> the informal interaction that is. the quality of class
> discussion was high; unfortunately most of the
> curricula content was heavily SOM.
>
> exams and papers seem surreal to me now; the whole
> judgement/competition base of it all just doesn't work
> anymore. i mean the one thing you put most of yourself
> into (final paper) is just read by the teacher and
> thrown in the bin! it is ridiculous; it is exactly
> this stuff, the students OWN considered thoughts, that
> need to be shared among the
> class...cross-pollinating....evolving mutual
> understandings....triggering debate, dialogue,
> dialectic....
>
> anyway that is why i bailed...had to really force
> myself to do the required assessment. well that and
> the world cup being on!
>
> so....i been a thinking and it seems to me that maybe
> a virtual uni would be a good idea. basically a
> repository of quality thought and art, and
> open/moderated fora particular to various fields.
>
> this would be a FREE university whose raison d'etre
> would be the storing and evolution of quality
> knowledge; open and responsive to all.
>
> okay so isn't this just what the internet is now? well
> maybe,  but it is rather haphazard and unorganized. i
> think that a lot of quality is there but a bit of
> static fiddling could make it all easier to access,
> interrelate and be more open to DQ (ie
> input/appraisal).
>
> an MOQ uni? the university of quality? the free
> university of quality (FUQ) hmmmmmmmm
>
> under the gentle aegis of an MOQ framework, an
> entirely new kind of university could evolve. one that
> includes anyone who wished to participate, in any
> field(s) they choose.
>
> the MOQ aegis could be simply stated as three or four
> decreasingly valuable/accurate statements. a rough
> guess....:
> 1. reality is quality
> 2. quality, in the MOQ, is divided into a dynamic and
> static component. without DQ things wouldn't
> change/evolve; without sq things wouldn't persist.
> 3. DQ is strictly speaking indefinable. however we can
> say that it is the mystical source, centre and summit
> of the MOQ. evolution is a migration of static
> patterns towards DQ.
> 4. static patterns, ie all things that exist, are
> divided into a hierarchy of four levels: intellectual,
> social, biological, inorganic. these levels are
> discrete but are related via evolution (Arlo's stuff
> explaing the collective/individual source of level
> evolution could be put here).
>
> i guess the university's motto could be 'quality is
> better'
>
> anyway just dreamin....
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