Thanks for the reference! What I took (the Linux Practicum) must be the sister to the one described in the reference. I had googled for information on the Novell Linux Practicum but had found nothing out there describing it.
Back in the 1970's, our group at UCSD, and a number of other groups I was aware of, built similar systems. They were useful for exploration, self-evaluation and also for testing, i.e. checking whether a student had mastered an area and was ready to move on. By the mid-1980's, most schools had abandoned such technologies because they don't work as well for sorting people out into a curve. Too many people learned too much and it threatened the status quo. I'm very, very glad to see some of this technology coming back. It makes sense that it would come back in professional education where there is less interest in grades than in mastery. I hope we can have another go at transforming primary and secondary education sometime soon.
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Date: 2005-07-28 06:54 am (UTC)Back in the 1970's, our group at UCSD, and a number of other groups I was aware of, built similar systems. They were useful for exploration, self-evaluation and also for testing, i.e. checking whether a student had mastered an area and was ready to move on. By the mid-1980's, most schools had abandoned such technologies because they don't work as well for sorting people out into a curve. Too many people learned too much and it threatened the status quo. I'm very, very glad to see some of this technology coming back. It makes sense that it would come back in professional education where there is less interest in grades than in mastery. I hope we can have another go at transforming primary and secondary education sometime soon.