Thanks for the DrupalEd, Charlie, and or this setting. I really appreciate your help and will probably keep lurking at the dialog. I'm getting a vision of how this might be useful to my students, though I seem to be slow at picking up on the implications of taxonomies, and haven't had time to explore a huge variety of the modules. But I go crazy keeping websites fresh with the evolution of events in the classes that I'm teaching, and I'm guessing that the community features of the program will be a great assist.

I'm a psychologist teaching management skills in a college of business. I've long leaned toward experiential methods, and for years this included group dynamics process skills. I've hosted simulations and found role playing inevitably contrived. I started having more fun delegating anything and everything I could to classes, and leveraging the vacuum thus created for learning purposes. So my style is to set out discussion groups on themes which will produce learning events on key topics for the class, and then involve every person in cross-matrixed teams for administrative functions for the class.. Human Resources, Scheduling/class moderation, Quality Control (evaluating every presentation and providing feedback), Spirit (mission statement development, community-building activities, recognition awards), team effectiveness facilitators, contribution assessment (monitor attendance, enforce policies, design and implement peer evaluation processes). I provide a base grading plan and the rest of the decisions are made by a council consisting of representatives of the functional teams. Of course it all falls apart with slackers and collusion, authority problems and the sorts of eruptions that management has to deal with all of the time.