Talk:Worldware

This article was nominated for deletion on 10 June 2020. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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I'm new to this activity. "Worldware" is a term that has been used in the literature of educational uses of technology. If you do a Google search on 'worldware' 'technology' 'education' you'll find several hundred references such as these: http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/articles/Worldware.html http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/aa/landt/lt/docs/atcbttyp.htm http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0510&L=insttech&P=2867 http://web.mit.edu/ist/about/reports/stratplan2005.pdf http://www.webct.jp/c2003/proc/WebCT2003-Murata-Paper.pdf http://best.me.berkeley.edu/pubs/01_0205_P.pdf

All these references lead back to the original book where the term was coined.

What does this mean?

"The VVS Project also found that student editions of worldware often evolved into worldware; the easy-to-use, inexpensive software was used for professional purposes, too, especially by people who had learned using the original software." ?? HouseOfChange (talk) 23:25, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hah, excellent question. That whole section is unsourced, any nonsense like that should be trimmed if this survives AfD. Mbdfar (talk) 06:35, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to WP:HEY the article

The section ("Origin and development of the idea") that reads too much like a personal essay is, probably, in fact a personal essay. It was created in bulk by Sehrmann whose userpage declares him "Steven C Ehrmann works at the TLT Group in Washington DC."

Ehrmann's reminicences about his work at Educom are interesting, and if he wanted to publish them on his personal blog, I would have no problem pointing our readers there with an EL. Unfortunately, they are not accurate in some parts that can be checked. For example, he states "Educom is now Educause," but according to Educause history, "EDUCAUSE was formed in 1998 through a merger between CAUSE and Educom." Ehrmann states (in Wikipedia's voice) that he (Ehrmann) was the leader of VVS but writing in Telematics for Writing and Training he says that Paul Morris of Tufts University led VVS and that it was the VVS group that who coined the term "worldware."Valuable%2C%20Viable%20Software%22%20Educom&f=false

I propose to trim this section to elements that have been reported in work whose original publisher was not Wikipedia. HouseOfChange (talk) 18:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

With help from suggestions of useful references by Mbdfar and Superastig during the AfD, I think this could now be an accurate and possibly useful article for Wikipedia. More improvements welcome. HouseOfChange (talk) 21:12, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]