An open mind
I think it is a very interesting project which allows students that are not at the university notice how classes there works and also it creates certain learning independency because students are not force to be there, but they are involved.
I really agree with the idea that the best educational experience must have an interactive engagement as Dr. Smith stated in the article. However, the engagement is provided not only by the teacher, it has to do with the whole community which creates the support enough to handle this project. Kevin Carey, the policy director of Education Sector, a research institution in Washington stated that even this project has good results he believes that grades are needed as part of the results. I disagree with that because I think that grades could distort the main goal of this project.
http://www3.open.ac.uk/media/fullstory.aspx?id=20867
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-263-the-nature-of-creativity-fall-2005/
