Open Education in Python

[Bengt Richter]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:43:29 -0700, Maboroshi <nobody at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi I was interested in starting an online open education center focusing 
>on the Python language. This center would consist of beginning to 
>advanced computer science courses using the programming language Python 
>its primary goal would be to create a community of students and teachers 
>who actively discuss in newsgroups write articles give online lectures 
>and more.
>
There may be stuff to draw on at the intellectual goodie-store

    http://ocw.mit.edu

and specifically

    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm

though googling python site:ocw.mit.edu only got 12 hits. But there is plenty of CS ;-)


>How it would work: It would work on a what you put into the community is 
>what you get out of it bases. No money would be collected
>
>This has not been entirely thought out as I am just putting the feelers 
>out and want to see what the python community thinks about it.
>
I have often thought a technical reading club could be a way to learn a lot
(and sell some books by c.l.py authors ;-) IOW, I think there is a lot already
written (and free on line in the case of ocw.mit.edu) by really sharp people
that could provide starting discussion bases faster than new essays by volunteers.

That's not to say everything has been said. Far from it. But the advantage of
academic and quasi-academic stuff is some vetting and probably more consistent
terminology, which leads to less misunderstandings about words. The downside
of well-organized didactic material is of course that it makes cognitive frames
that are sometimes hard to escape, to explore new territory (or even see it).

Regards,
Bengt Richter