Just had a meeting with some people at Georgetown and bounced this
idea off them. They really like it and think it would be a good way
to enact change.
One point they made: because we do not have the resources to do a
large survey of schools, one professor with lots of political
experience suggested we do a Top 10 Report as a beginning
(researching and ranking US News' Top 10 Schools). I think this
makes a lot of sense because it will still force us to define the
methodology and give us experience with the research process, but it
will not over-extend us. What's more, once we have this, it could
serve as a point to justify some funding to do a larger survey.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:39 PM, D Parker Phinney
<[email protected]> wrote:
definitely interested in helping with logistics, including both the
criteria for the report card, as well as any web programming or
whatever
that needs to be done. after tuesday, school is out!
Wesley Chen wrote:
> @Kevin: Right, determining the criteria and their point weight
seems to
> be the hardest part. Each category, such as Open Access or Network
> Filtering ought to be broken down into smaller, simple questions
like
> "has the university considered Open Access?" or "is the university
in
> discussion about implementing OA?" The point is to make the overall
> grading criteria as granular as possible. Besides Y/N questions, I
can't
> think of another way to make a objective judgment—using a scale of
1-5
> clearly isn't an option. So in any subcategory, a YES may yield any
> number of points. This grading system obviously will be finessed
later.
> *I think assembling the criteria bank will be the toughest part.*
>
> *...@christina: Sure. Let's say that the overall criteria index is
worth
> 50 points. You'd need at least 45 points for an "A"-range grade.
> However, we're running into the same problem of objectiveness if our
> definition of openness isn't based in numbers. So, openness might
have
> to be defined by 10 or so Y/N questions.
>
> @Alex: Would appreciate that!
>
> Parker H and I already had a discussion about this recently. I think
> this project has a lot of potential, and I'm glad we're picking up
steam
> again. Anyone else who hasn't chimed in on this thread interested in
> forming a more formal committee to work on this?
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Alex Kozak <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> ccLearn is starting up a project to create a database for
University
> copyright ownership policies in a Semantic MediaWiki format. I
> should be able to give you all more information about that
soon so
> that you could use it and/or contribute to it, but it isn't
quite
> ready yet.
>
> - Alex
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Kevin Donovan <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> I really do like this idea and the idea of a stand-alone
Open
> University Report site sounds great.
>
> My main concern (outside scalability) is the criteria by
which we
> judge. Ideally, it would be objective so we could cross
index
> schools,
> but what would those be besides Y/N indicators?
>
> On 4/27/09, Wesley Chen <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > Parker: One of the kids you might remember meeting when
I was at
> > Dartmouth on Sat night worked on GreenReportCard.org a
little
> while back.
> > Looking at that site tonight has given me the idea that
we
> should try to
> > create a similar score card with a set of standardized
> grading criteria
> > (e.g. administration, licensing, Open Access, etc.).
> > The way our wiki article is structured right now is
clunky,
> and the
> > information is admittedly incomplete. How about
creating a
> rundown for each
> > school similar to the way GRC does it? It's easier (and
more
> fun) to read
> > and write, plus I think it would be far more appealing
to the
> non-FC crowd
> > comparing colleges or to those already attending but
looking
> to identify
> > areas of improvement at their school.
> >
> > Do you think the report card portion of OU should spin
off
> and become its
> > own project and web site? Baby steps first, of course,
but I
> think moving in
> > that direction could have great potential.
> >
> > — W
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM, D Parker Phinney
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
> >
> >> so, some schools are ending for summer very soon. we
still
> have a good
> >> 5 weeks here at dartmouth, and we plan on spending
part of
> that time
> >> getting together our OU status report (once
controversially
> referred to
> >> as a "report card") together.
> >>
> >> i encourage other chapters to try to do the same by
the end
> of the
> >> school year. it would be great to get some kind of
press
> release or
> >> blog post together early this summer showing where we
are
> and what we've
> >> done.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_individual_university_status_and_information
> >>
> >>
> >> an incomplete report is better than a nonexistent one.
> >>
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