Hi Leigh & Wayne, Actually, if these faculty are salaried employees, they receive benefits - in Canada, this is equivalent to 1/3 of a person's salary... so, I'd increase your numbers, and multiply the hourly rate by 1.3 to get the full cost of actually training these people.
Moreover, when one considers the infrastructure devoted to supporting these staff as well, AND not to mention, the continuing time it takes to be skilled - i.e., over the individual person's 'life cycle - say it takes another 5 days per person, to master the wiki skills, the number rises even again. Sheesh - you almost need a former accountant to add all this up ~ glad Wayne is on our side! Randy ________ Randy Fisher - aka "WikiRandy for WikiEducator" iCentro Networks Vancouver, BC +1 604.684.2275 www.icentronetworks.com www.hirerandy.com Skype / Gmail / Yahoo: wikirandy ----- Original Message ---- From: Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:13:08 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100 000 Congratulations Wayne! Relating to the idea of asking institutions to contribute to the Wiki to Print (and other feature developments) idea.. Perhaps the Institutions could put a dollar value on the "building of Wikieducator skills" that they do. This could add to the over all dollar value of the initiative - not to dillute the significance of the Hewlett Foundation and CoLs committment, but to measure the full scale effort that is going on here. For example: Otago Polytechnic, in terms of building wikieducator skills now has about 45 staff who have gone through the Wikieducator tutorials with support from the staff trainers. Not sure what dollar value that would translate into but it would be something like 45x3hoursxNZ$35p/hr=NZ$4725... so far. I'm sure there would be other Institutions making a similar investment in terms of staff professional development. In terms of content, it is a much bigger number of hours from Otago Polytechnic. So along with the good stats on the recent changes page, the sponsorship money, and the institutional investments... this project is actually quite large! yay :) On 10/26/07, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Be sure to check out our News on the front page. (http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page) The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100000 to build MediaWiki Educator skills for at least 2500 educators in 53 countries under our Learning4Content initiative: http://www.wikieducator.org/Metawikieducator/Learning4Content/Hewlett_bid The COL will also be investing an additional $60000 for this project. The WikiEducator family is proud of this achievement because it is our first funding proposal developed as free content on WikiEducator. The project will widen the skills base among educators to contribute to free content projects like WikiEducator and Wikipedia. I think I should have a glass of red wine to celebrate. I hope WIkiEducators all over the world will do the same! Cheers Wayne -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall http://learnonline.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
