[WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] Calling All College Spanish OER and Open Textbooks!

2012-03-16 Thread Tom Caswell
Hi Alex, Thank you for your offer of assistance! I will introduce you to our lead faculty course designer for the Spanish course. I know she is planning on authoring some materials, but the funding for each course makes it difficult to author all original materials. Plus we want to leverage existi

[WikiEducator] Link to research on Wikipedia / other thoughts

2012-03-16 Thread kirby urner
This snippet of HTML (below), mailed to me as an "infographic" is a way of pulling the jpg, tall and narrow, into a web page, where your browser gives scrolling access. However, if you're already in your browser, just opening the jpg file would be an option. I'm ambivalent about what seems to be

Re: [WikiEducator] Calling All College Spanish OER and Open Textbooks!

2012-03-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 02:27, Tom Caswell wrote: > Hello OER Friends, > > I'm putting out a call for college-level first year Spanish OER, especially > open textbooks. There are many sources of OERs listed at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Open_Education_Resources This includes many modules on p

[WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] Calling All College Spanish OER and Open Textbooks!

2012-03-16 Thread Alex P.Real
Hi Tom, Why not develop the materials? If we cling to preexisting materials it might be the fish that bites its tail (?). And yep, available OER in Spanish is quite limited, guess it can be a kind of cultural issue, but at the same time many universities offer OCW though without explicit CC licens