Kevin (or anyone else), If you are interested in learning more about Michigan's method I could put you in contact with the right people.
Greg Kevin Donovan wrote: > Greg, that's great to hear. I'd look at open.michigan but didn't realize > the method in which you were doing it. I've already circulated my draft > proposal, but think the ideas you guys are using are great. > > All, since this seems to be something supported fairly widely, let's get > a session on it at the Conference. (btw, I notice that UAEM is having a > conference at Berkeley the weekend after us: > http://www.essentialmedicine.org/) > > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Donovan > Georgetown '11: SFS > www.blurringborders.com <http://www.blurringborders.com> > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Kevin Donovan wrote: > > I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!) > > and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational > resources to > > help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects > > regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at > http://freedomforip.org/ > > would, as well. > > I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing. And not > only because I am a part of the group working on it. > > The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT > are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money. > > At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials > to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send > a request out to someone in India to make a replacement. > > What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the > help of students. A student who is enrolled in the class will be the > one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even > redrawing a flow diagram if need be. They will be "paid" in class > credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who, > at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but > I digress). > > For more information see: http://open.umich.edu and > https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular. > > Hope that helps. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
