[nmglug] Open Source Certification

[Doug Schocke]

What Adres Paglayan wrote says it all. Though I must add that before I
retire to NM I served on the curriculum committee at NVCC for several
years and what he suggests are about what we did except we had the same
information entered in bureaucratic ritual forms translated into the
appropriate "educationaleese". 
Doug
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:21 -0700, Andres Pagla information entered in
bureaucratic ritual forms translated into the appropriate
educationaleese. 
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:21 -0700, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:39 -0700, Jeffrey Miller wrote: 
> > Software.  Just some type of certificate of completion or  
> > achievement.  I am looking for something that isn't as gnarly as an A+  
> > cert.  But still will state that the holder of said cert has  
> > successfully built a linux box and was able to do some CLI stuff.  And  
> > show someone else how to do the build.  or something like that.  <:
> > 
> > peace
> > 
> The first part is very trivial these days, as in yes, I popped in an
> Ubuntu install disk and it worked,
> For the rest of it, you either know it (and dunnit) or not, your
> assertion should be enough
> 
> now back to the course,
> <shameless plug>
> for my mental gymnastics, I teach some no credit courses at UNM CE
> (coming soon at SFCC)
> these go from PHP & MySQL, Rails, Asterisk, and other bunch, all open
> source related,
> </shameless plug>
> 
> "I" sign the certificates,
> they go back to their places (knowing more than before) and show a
> certificate with my signature and that's good enough,
> 
> if you are putting the curriculum together and teaching the course,
> then your assertion on how the students did is the "certifiaction",
> then have your place furnishing a nice diploma you can sign after
> evaluating the students
> 
> on the safe side, you can publish the contents of the course and the
> expected outcomes on line,
> in case someone wants to check the scope of it,
> 
> 
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