[FM Discuss] IEEE Article: "Who Wrote This Stuff?"

[Cesar Ballardini]

2010/10/22 Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com>:
> http://www.todaysengineer.org/2010/Oct/backscatter.asp
>
> An engineering professor is alarmed by the risks of collaboratively textbooks.

The risks are true.  But there are other control/power strugles that I can see.

How to address the risks?  is a good question.  To inhibit the
collaborative writing doesn't seem a creative approach to me.

The commercial world of computing devices uses "certification" as a
means of minimal control quality over contents.  May be we could
create a new role besides authors/editors,  some "certifier council
member" .  The council will be local (some school), for some area of
interest. with some requirements for its members (academics), or
one-person made (the author)  Any one or mix of them will be
acceptable in certain case.  This certification badges will have
meaning to the readers.

Well, my english is very primitive, I hope you can cope with it :)

Cheers.

-- 
It's not enough to teach students to surf the Net, we must teach them to
make waves. My pedagogical theory is relate, create, donate, which
suggests that students work in teams, create ambitious projects and then
donate these to people who can use and build upon them. --Ben Shneiderman