dave cormier

 community as curriculum
Suggesting that a distributed negotiation of knowledge can allow a community of people to legitimize the work they are doingamong themselves and for each member of the group, the rhizomatic model dispenses with the need forexternal validation of knowledge, either by an expert or by a constructed curriculum. Knowledge can again bejudged by the old standards of "I can" and "I recognize."

convo between wiley and downes 
haven't read it all yet..

thank you MaryAnn - hadn't seen this one..  added here on be you.