WaSP Interact is a fantastic new community-driven open curriculum based upon web standards and best practices, designed for students by web professional

Grammar and semantics aside (the blurb) two things come to mind which give me a bit of concern.
1. With a ‘dynamic and ever changing (open sourced)’ curriculum, how the hell can you ever know what the fruit (your prospective employee) is made from?

2. Isnt that what community colleges and vocational schools do anyway? “Tell us what you want us to teach your workforce and we’ll teach ‘em that and you hire ‘em?”
- the only thing is, instead of BUSINESS PEOPLE and those with a HIRING NEED providing the input, you have instead some glorified “Curriculum Wiki” that every year churns out students each slightly different in aptitudes, skills and training based on the whims of the moment.

3. Is Education REALLY needing that much groupthink? And since what is really important in our field is more than just “KNOWING” (CSS, JQUERY,etc) but EXPERIENCING - live site loads, Client demands, things that come up in live situations like internships or first live projects, etc.

4. Isnt their call for “Post your Ideas” just another bit of “CROWD SOURCING?”

It’s kind of like the “what is sexual harassment” question ? If she likes you, then your comment “You look real nice” is a nice compliment, otherwise , its an unwelcome overture lol
So is it “cynical crowd sourcing” or “good old interactivity and connection with your user base?” who knows?

It’s good overall to be asking for community input -but I just kinda feel that at some point, EVENTUALLY, the educational institution has to just KNOW what they are gonna teach and HOW they gonna teach it without this liberal grope fest.

Interestingly, I didnt see any courses that would REALLY be important:
1) How to detect your boss/client is full of crap (and make it not matter)
2) How to sniff out “spec work” and use it to your advantage
3) How to Collect Payment w/o burning yourself
5) How to sellout without losing your soul!
6) How to count - and save on accounting fees!

Overall though, when all the pluses and minus cancel each other out, I think the net effect is a positive - the discussion alone should be useful, even though the school itself may not be.

i see the argument or complaint you have - a curriculum by committee ?

I agree with no to THAT, but I’m not sure thats what they’re doing :)

I think they are positioning themselves as a uber responsive educational and tutorial community and would do well if they have a core of ‘standard’ traditional courses, and a slew of optional components and ‘electives’  that round out the curriculum AND the graduate.

Good job Nathan!

It’s good overall to be asking for community input -but I just kinda feel that at some point, EVENTUALLY, the educational institution has to just KNOW what they are gonna teach and HOW they gonna teach it without this liberal grope fest
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Good comments there guys.

I’d have to say Phillc - the courses that really are important as you’ve stated, I think can only really be learnt through hands on experience. There’s just some stuff you have to learn the hard way.

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