Thanks for all the great responses! Valerie, your observation that your colleagues are unwilling to consider a curricular resource that doesn't cost a ton of money or have a gigantic hype machine behind it struck a chord, because I've seen the same behavior. My work experience has only been supporting faculty members in the U.S., so I'm not sure if it's just a problem there, but I suppose I doubt it.
It reminds me of Wayne's observation that real innovation in this area will come from the developing world. When people don't have the luxury of silly prejudices about the financial provenance of their content, and have to focus on using what actually works, then those barriers can come down. Also, I wanted to echo what Wayne said about copyright of materials produced by faculty members. At least in the U.S., one of the most important factors here is what the faculty has negotiated with the university as part of their contract. That means you can see variation on a school-by-school basis. -=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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
