Interesting article in the Guardian about OERs: http://tinyurl.com/yhf44oj
What got me was the part near the end where it's talking about MIT's OpenCourseWare project and says, "But it costs the university between $10,000 and $15,000 to put the material from each course online because the materials have to be properly licensed and formatted." I'm sorry, what? I'm racking my brain trying to figure out how they could possibly spend fifteen grand just getting course materials from a professor's PC to their web server. I mean, yes, they package things as zip files and everything, but fifteen grand?! The only thing I can think of is that they have to buy these materials from their own faculty members, is that the case? (By contrast, imagine what WE could do with thirty million dollars!) -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://hiresteve.com/blog http://wikieducator.org/steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
