We suggest that Universities historically are "approved" to give "licenses" i.e. certification that students have a certain level of knowledge
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In the emerging Web based Virtual University, the traditional type and length of learening cycles is not obviously appropriate
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Further we need to bootstrap WebWisdom and "suck customers in" a little bit at a time!
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Thus suggest Scalable Certificates
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Level 1: One day (6 hours)
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Level 2: One Week (30 hours)
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Level 3: One Semester/Quarter Course (120 hours)
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Level 4: Minor/Certificate -- about 5 courses (600 hours)
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Level 5: Masters degree -- about 12 courses (1400 hours)
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Note these certificates are also portable as can take anywhere at any time!
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Traditionally, University courses are 1/3 interaction and 2/3 study/homework
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i.e. 120 hour course is 40 hours lectruring
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