Sam got this right, especially in US education - Right now people "trust" the "brand" of MIT - the infallibility of anything that costs a lot of money and has a great PR department.
Wikipedia, Connexions, MERLOT are free, so most of my colleagues are unwilling to consider these as academically rigorous. This is a surprisingly big hurdle to overcome. Students are having to drop out of school because everything is so expense - $100-150 textbooks, $30-50 course packs, even though their tuition is essentially free - California community college s about $20 per unit. But like the man said - Times, they are a changin... ..Valerie On Nov 15, 6:20 am, Samuel Rose <[email protected]> wrote: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
