Hi Steve, Ahh, that's a good point - do you think a responsive letter to the editor would be a good idea? You could point out the merits of using WE... <smile>
- Randy On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. ________________ Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant & Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization & Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management & Performance * Organization Design & Development * Sustainable Project Implementation & Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration & Communities of Practice * Coaching & Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
