Wiki-ized University

Speculations by David J. Staley in: Managing the Platform: Higher Education and the Logic of Wikinomics. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (January/February 2009): 36–47.

Characteristics

David Staley:

" The wiki-ized university

• is a “platform,”

• is permeable (no formal admissions process),

• consists of voluntary and self-organizing associations of teachers and students,

• consists of a self-organizing and intellectually fluid curriculum,

• does not offer tenure to professors (professors’ longevity is determined by the community),

• is governed by protocols based on community values and mores rather than on administrative rules and fiats,

• does not grant diplomas or certificates,

• encourages play (and even failure),

• is governed by “intellectual barter” and makes all knowledge created therein free to anyone,

• is managed by administrators who “bubble up” from among the members of the community,

• is managed by administrators who maintain the platform as “choice architects” and lead via cultivation and care, not command and control, and

• has a fluid temporal structure: there are no “semesters”; teaching and learning are ongoing activities."

(http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/ManagingthePlatformHigher/47934)