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From: jjv3345@ritcv.UUCP (Jeff Van Epps)
Newsgroups: net.general,net.news.group
Subject: Net Education
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 10:02:51 EDT
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	Have there ever been any ideas for using the net for cooperative
education? I don't mean this in the university sense* but in the literal
sense. There are a lot of intelligent people on the net with expertise
in different areas. Everyone could learn a lot from the experts in other
areas (I know I could learn a lot from experts in net.ai and net.crypt
for example) in return for their own contributions.

	Perhaps each newsgroup could have an editor (akin to a moderator)
who would be responsible for arranging the messages into a coherent and
useful format. It could be an encyclopedia, textbook, even Q&A. I think
this has the potential to be an enormous knowledge resource.

	Just a thought. Has it been tried already? Will it work?


* To a university, cooperative education is a device they use to send students
  off to work for a few months. Then they conveniently assume he has saved 
  enough money to pay skyrocketing tuition costs. Therefore the university
  doesn't need to give out scholarships or financial aid!


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			Jeff Van Epps
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