Dear Steve, Are you talking of the sense of social resposibilty in some of the people from deloping countries so far as the development of open/ free education resources is concerned? Ellpee, Jaipur, India
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
