Perhaps organizational tools such as indices by topic, by educational level, and by different educational standards could serve the purpose of rating as well as organization.
If, for example I wanted to construct an index or table of contents linking US biology educational standards to a set of resources developed by various WE users. In the process it would be essential that I evaluated each page before linking from the index. As more and more such organizational tools are created, link counts could serve as one indicator of quality. Creators of such indices would tend to ignore the weaker content. I think it is inevitable in an open environment that there will be variability in quality. Two (of many) potential approaches to judging quality might be benign neglect of poor quality material, or a peer review system resulting in a rating. Peer review and rating might please some users and alienate others, but it would likely result in a decent measure of quality. Of course it would also mean increased work load for all concerned. One can't expect peers to review unless one is also willing to serve as reviewer. Cheers, Declan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
