Our district, Minneapolis Public Schools, is working on a project to pay teachers to create MPS specific courses. Will I be able to download a course from your site and tweak it a bit to fit the requirements of my target grade level here in Mpls and then upload it to the MPS and get paid for doing that, presumably, anyway?

I think the plan makes sense, but another question: what constitutes a whole course, or don’t you care? – you’ll just take what you get without judgment or evaluation or editing and archive it, tagged and categorized?

That makes me think that there will be a ‘market,’I think, for good Moodle courses. At some point, for instance, I’ll become trusted as creator of good lessons for 3rd and 4th graders in science, for instance, and people will start looking for my stuff on your site and send me bouquets on my Facebook page and my district will pay me for adding value to community. That would be a pay for performance that I could get behind.

That also allows people who know how to access a Moodle course and have the necessary role privileges to browse my student’s work to make some evaluations about how I’m teaching. That would certainly be an improvement, at least, on the dropping in for 30 minutes with a clipboard and trying to figure out what’s going on without actually destroying the learning that might have been going on before the administrator showed up.

Is this the direction you’re headed?