Well, I'm not sure when they're next going to offer the class, but MIT
certainly still lists
6.171
(formerly 6.916) in their course catalog. And in addition to
Philip's materials
there's also stuff
in OCW.
Various other universities have also offered the same course at
various times, and
Eve
and her colleagues is presumably teaching very similar material (plus
more) at
Northface University
So I think what this boils down to is:
- Get more universities to adopt a 6.171 or similar curriculum,
regardless of whether it is OpenACS centric or not.
- Encourage both the professors teaching those courses and the
students taking it, to be aware of and use OpenACS.
- Also leverage all those folks to make OpenACS better, e.g. via
class projects.
Various folks at various schools have made related efforts before, but
AFAIK there is currently no particular (or at least no visible)
on-going OpenACS wide effort to encourage and support universities
teaching this stuff. More of that would definitely be a Good Thing.
The universities already running dotLRN are certainly an obvious first
step! Which of them already offer a course similar to MIT's 6.171,
and which don't?
