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Collaborative learning
Proposal for a collaborative learning system by Stick (yes, “Now I Must Wank” Stick) at Kuro5hin.org. Very good, actually, has lots of really interesting responses. I was thinking along the same lines. We need a lot more public reference libraries that are of as good quality as university libraries (believe me: being able to get hold of all sorts of journal articles, interesting books and archive after archive of newspaper microfilm make a good learning environment!). I do like the idea of some centrally managed index of different online materials and articles.
Perhaps for techie things, some kind of meta tag system could be implemented to describe how articles lie on the Beginner to Master continuum, so that if such a thing was built we could say to a search engine: “Hey - I wonder if there are any good articles about C++ written for beginners or intermediates.” That would be really kind of cool. We need a way to distinguish the online equivalent of “The Dummies Guide” from really in-depth complicated stuff, and this is where meta tagging and such can help.
