jjv3345@ritcv.UUCP (Jeff Van Epps) (04/29/86)
[] Have there ever been any ideas for using the net for cooperative education? I don't mean this in the university sense* but in the literal sense. There are a lot of intelligent people on the net with expertise in different areas. Everyone could learn a lot from the experts in other areas (I know I could learn a lot from experts in net.ai and net.crypt for example) in return for their own contributions. Perhaps each newsgroup could have an editor (akin to a moderator) who would be responsible for arranging the messages into a coherent and useful format. It could be an encyclopedia, textbook, even Q&A. I think this has the potential to be an enormous knowledge resource. Just a thought. Has it been tried already? Will it work? * To a university, cooperative education is a device they use to send students off to work for a few months. Then they conveniently assume he has saved enough money to pay skyrocketing tuition costs. Therefore the university doesn't need to give out scholarships or financial aid! -- Jeff Van Epps ritcv!jjv345