QUESTION AUTHORITY
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This week in CCK08 covers the topics of power, control, validity, and authority in distributed environments and I’m quite interested to see where the discussion takes us; especially in light of yesterday’s excitement in the Moodle forum.
The week began with an authoritarian decision to force everyone in the course to subscribe to the week’s forum thread – whether they wanted to or not.  Downes’ preliminary post to the thread read as follows:
Moodle offers me the option to ‘force everyone to be subscribed to this …