[MUD-Dev] SOC: Use of MUDs as teaching/organizational tools for schools and businesses

[Chris Yeh]

I have a friend named Don Yates in the organizational behavior field
who focuses on what he calls extraordinary organizations.  These
organizations reject the conventional model of hierarchy and
command-and-control in favor of self-directed and self-governing
groups.  One of his favorite examples is the Sudbury Valley School
(http://www.sudval.org/), where the students set their own
curriculum and all issues are decided by vote, with the youngest
child's vote counting the same as the principal's.

He was relating to me the difficulties he had in getting
organizations to adopt his ideas.  I commented that A) He might be
able to find examples of extraordinary organizations in a virtual
world, and B) That he might be able to create a virtual world to
allow people to experience these principles, rather than just
reading about them.

Since I am less familiar with some of the more innovative (read:
non-mainstream-publisher-developed) virtual worlds out there, I was
hoping that some of the folks on the list might have some
suggestions for Don that I can pass along.  If there aren't any good
examples, I think it would be interesting to hear how people think
it would be possible to create one without a lot of money.

Chris Yeh
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