How about rediscovering the Archilogy Institute as an "organic MOOC" [1].
What we said in 2010 could sound as below :
An organic MOOC, is an open creative knowledge community inspired by opensource, wikipedia and IT cloud visions.
The knowledge community is open and creative.
- open
because its members are not bound to a central legal entity through
contractual agreements such as a subscription or a labor contract but
form a community where members are bound together through
one-to-many arrangements which allows "Sharing, Reusing and Remixing, - Legally " [2] intellectual outputs;
- creative
because the one-to-many arrangements which bind members of the
knowledge community together are based on Creative Commons contracts
which have been crafted to foster creativity and innovation.
In a nutshell, an organic MOOC operates as a pervasive organism composed of " creative knowledge cells " nurtured by individuals or organizations and irrigated by "streams of knowledge " whereas :
a "creative knowledge cell" is defined as an information unit compliant with five criteria :
- the unit should carry some creative work;
- the creative work of the unit should be endorsed by its creator;
- the history of the unit should be traced;
- the creative work of the unit should be anchored in previous creative works;
-
the creative work of the unit should be marked with the freedom the
creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use
commercially, or any combination thereof;
a "stream of knowledge " is a sequence of linked creative knowledge cells.
[1]
a Google search through a PC connected in France and of which cookies having been suppressed with the exact phrase "organic mooc" returns only five entries, including a page by Keith Hamon, where he describes on one hand the "traditional, sequential, mechanical" MOOC and on the other hand the "new-fangled, networked, organic" MOOC, and points to the home page of "Rhizomatic Learning - The community is the curriculum" a MOOC produced by "Peer to Peer University" (P2PU).
[1]
a Google search through a PC connected in France and of which cookies having been suppressed with the exact phrase "organic mooc" returns only five entries, including a page by Keith Hamon, where he describes on one hand the "traditional, sequential, mechanical" MOOC and on the other hand the "new-fangled, networked, organic" MOOC, and points to the home page of "Rhizomatic Learning - The community is the curriculum" a MOOC produced by "Peer to Peer University" (P2PU).
