On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Tom Pilsch spewed into the bitstream:
> >On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Paul B. Brown wrote:
> >> OK, but do you develop the course content at well? How does the student
> >> know what to study? Study everything? Hardly. How does it work>
> >On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Tom Peters wrote:
> > Everything that is in the objectives and nothing more. For self-study,
> >use the links to the HOWTO's. If that doesn't suit the student, he can
> >spend money on courses that people are developing to prepare for our
> >exams. Be welcome to develop a free course for that. One Miguel A.L.
> >Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recently in the linux-cert list offered material
> >for that at http://home.linux.org.ph/training/
> The other Tom P. is right on the mark. Every now and then we need to step
> back and remind ourselves what we are trying to accomplish. The middle
> name of the organization is PROFESSIONAL. If the same people who set the
> standards are building the course material, we run the risk of becoming a
> certificate mill, and most of us have some strong opinions about
> organizations with that reputation.
> We are trying to establish standards for those who would call themselves
> Linux practitioners. People should be able to self-study for the
> certification, and if they cannot do this successfully, then:
> - the exam does not match the standards (shame on us), or
> - the individual does not understand the material and is not ready
> to be certified (the system worked!).
> Similarly, if a trainer cannot develop a curriculum to successfully teach
> the core objectives, then maybe they should either purchase courseware from
> someone who can or reconsider whether they should be teaching Linux. The
> marketplace will work by identifying and supporting those courseware
> developers who do a quality job. The marketplace also will eliminate
> unqualified trainers when word on the low exam pass rate of their students
> gets around.
This is truth in crystallized form! Well said!
--
Chuck Mead, CTO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc.- http://www.moongroup.com/
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