David Nalley strikes again! http://opensource.com/education/11/4/avoiding-pitfalls-open-education
The second common problem is that professors frequently err by dumping their students into projects as core participants, when by their nature, students should be involved peripherally--which is not the same as invaluable or unimportant ways... ask community mentors what itches they would scratch themselves but are just too busy to do. Then ask if they would teach you how to do that work for them. ...Students might spend 12 weeks in a class, 12 hours a week on that class, and half their class time on your project; that's 72 hours total, or less than two weeks of full-time work; think about what an intern or a new employee could do in that timeframe. If you start with something too ambitious, you run into yak shaving... _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
