Greetings Economists,
Jim Devine forwards and them comments,
Pen-l alumnus Tavis Barr asks: I've created a lot of my own teaching
materials that I put on the web, especially for my stats class, where I have
lecture notes, exercises, review sheets, practice exams, etc. I'd love to
find a way to
Jim,
collaborative teaching projects can use Web collaboration software such as
userland: http://www.userland.com/
phpnuke: http://phpnuke.org/
wiki: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
Wikipedia is an example of a collaborative encyclopedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
On Thursday, February 27, 2003 at 14:11:22 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
Pen-l alumnus Tavis Barr asks: I've created a lot of my own teaching
materials that I put on the web, especially for my stats class, where I have
lecture notes, exercises, review sheets, practice exams, etc. I'd love to
find
Title: open-source teaching?
This looks like a good start, but if there's to be such an effort at open-source teaching, we need someone who (unlike myself) has the time, energy, and expertise to organize the basic project, so that people on pen-l and similar lists could contribute
Hi everyone.
I've decided to pop back on the list to follow up on my message that Jim
forwarded. I actually have a great deal of interest in this question and
I'm hoping some others here might find themselves in the same boat as me
and therefore also be interested.
My question was a bit
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35147] open-source teaching
two commens.
1. For several years, I have put my lecture notes hand-outs on-line, first on my web-site and later on Blackboard. In the first case, I got the feeling that students at other universities were plagiarizing my lectures for term
The point about plagiarism is interesting and one I hadn't thought
about. Though I don't think there's really a way to avoid the threat
whatever we put online. One solution is that my university subscribes
to a service that will scan papers for plagiarism (it seems a bit
cop-like but
1. For several years, I have put
my lecture notes hand-outs on-line, first on my web-site and later
on Blackboard. In the first case, I got the feeling that students at
other universities were plagiarizing my lectures for term papers. Those
who set up an on-line open-source economics page have
I wrote:
1. For several
years, I have put my lecture notes hand-outs on-line, first on my web-site
and later on Blackboard. In the first case, I got the feeling that students at
other universities were plagiarizing my lectures for term papers. Those who set
up an on-line open-source
Funny we should be talking about Mankiw of the $1.35 million advance for
his fluffy principles book at the same time as open source textbooks.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings Economists,
Thanks for bringing this up Tavis. Something I've wanted to see discussed
for quite awhile. In my view an important topic for the left to develop
some practice in. So your initiative is welcome from my point of view
entirely. I think there are some questions of course to
Greetings Economists,
The remarks pasted in below the signature have several problems in an 'open
source' sense. Bill Lear posted a site
-http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html - that describes the
problems an individual author had with open source book publishing. That
essay
Title: open-source teaching?
Pen-l alumnus Tavis Barr asks: I've created a lot of my own teaching materials that I put on the web, especially for my stats class, where I have lecture notes, exercises, review sheets, practice exams, etc. I'd love to find a way to share this with other profs
Remember the suggestion of a pen-l collaborative text.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:11:22PM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
Pen-l alumnus Tavis Barr asks: I've created a lot of my own teaching
materials that I put on the web, especially for my stats class, where I have
lecture notes, exercises,
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