Hi Steve, I am glad I have found your post as it partly relates to my question (placed on 'Apennyforyourthought"ning already online)and touches a very sensitive subject of balance between the techers pay and their fear of truth on matters related to the education.Would you be so kind and take a look to the question on the ning and respond to it,please.
Cheers Eliza Papajanis 2009/11/15 Samuel Rose <[email protected]> > > Hi Steve, greetings Wiki Educator > > My name is Sam Rose > > I am Director of Forward Foundation, partner in Future Forward > Institute, creator of open source http://socialmediaclassroom.com, > http://localfoodsystems.org and a member of http://p2pfoundation.net > > a quick response follows: > > 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!) > > > > Having worked with many Universities, I can tell you that they are > generally role-based economies, which means that there is a specialist > for everything. And specialization tends to have been in existence for > decades or centuries in these institutions. So, this means that MIT > likely pays not just the professor, but also multiple IT people, PR > people (including copy editors, program directors, etc), and records > managers, and archivists to produce this material. So, the number that > they publish means that this is their accounting of the parts of the > salary for all of the people in their huge bureaucracy that the work > is passed around to. > > I would be willing to bet that the amount represented as being spent > is quite accurate, and typical of how a major University would handle > this. I agree that the amount of resources expended revlieals an > incredible amount of wastefulness. I agree this demonstrates that > network-based production ecologies can out-compete traditional > industrial ecologies on cost and resource usage. I believe it could > currently be argued that network based production ecologies can also > out-compete in terms of quality, too. > > Right now people "trust" the "brand" of MIT, but what if there were > one or more ways to "certify" network-based contributions" I think > that certification/maintaining of open education packages by smaller > service organizations will increase perceived trust. This > certification and maintaining could potentially be done by up to > thousands of collaborating participant groups, educators, etc. > > > > > > -=Steve=- > > > > > > -- > > Stephen H. Foerster > > http://hiresteve.com > > http://hiresteve.com/blog > > http://wikieducator.org/steve > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Sam Rose > Social Synergy > Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 > Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 > skype: samuelrose > email: [email protected] > http://socialsynergyweb.com > http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing > http://flowsbook.panarchy.com/ > http://socialmediaclassroom.com > http://localfoodsystems.org > http://notanemployee.net > http://communitywiki.org > > "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human > ambition." - Carl Sagan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
