Re: Signinig up, versions, passing UMOs [was: Passing UMOs]

[Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com>]

Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
> Anatoly Volynets wrote:
>   
>> All this discussion sounds like being based on assumption that teacher
>> controls "passing" an UMO.
>>     
> Not quite. Most of this is about author and/or teacher actually. For
> human-controlled problems, teacher decides if solution presented is
> valid or not. For the rest, author defines what solution is correct, so
> in a sense he decides what passes and what doesn't.
>
>   

Perfect! So it is decided automatically after the Author decided what
passage is! Thus we have to provide the Author with corresponding
tools... if we want to (in the current version).

>>  If so, it is about administrative tools for
>> teaching. Do we do these? If we do, then only teacher decides what was
>> passed in which sense.
>>     
> See above.
>   
See what? Do we or do we not provide Author with tools to set up his
passage policy?

>>  For all other cases "passing" is for a student
>> only and informational only thing.
>>     
> No. Passing is not purely informational, once we implement control flows.
> Passing object also gives access to voting abilities. I suspect there will
> be other rights in future tied to passing an object.
>   

Agreed. Hence, we are talking about future versions here? Anyway, we
have to separate, what is set by the Author and after that works
automatically for students AND what is set by the Teacher and gets
implemented either automatically, or manually. In both cases we have to
provide SETTING TOOLS, not our own policies.

>>  He can have it for an UMO regardless
>> version. Having all versions available the student can look into them if
>> he wants to and decide whether they are of interest or not.
>>   
>>     
> No. Not as far as studying is concerned, otherwise we lose concept of a
> "course" completely, and I am not sure we want to do that.
>   

It is not for us to decide what people want to learn. We provide
environment.
Those who need courses will shop for courses.
Those who want to create courses will create courses.
Those who need other UMOs will shop for these UMOs.
Those who want to create separate UMOs will create these UMOs.
The UU provides for all of them corresponding tools and the best
marketplace where all of them can meet.
Thank you :)

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Anatoly Volynets, Co-Founder
total-knowledge.com
culturedialogue.org