Hi All, Interesting points - maybe we have to open another front in the drive to embracing open education - PR. Perhaps amongst us, we can find PR friends of open education, and help the wheels turn a bit faster.. I'm thinking opinion pieces news items, articles, promotions, events, etc. .These PR friends can be in any country, in any language....all of it can help...:-)
- Randy On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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: > > > -- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
