Sarah, I believe our recent paper is directly related to you question:
A Sustainable Model for OpenCourseWare Development http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2353 Let me know if I can answer any questions about the research. And good luck with your own work - it's very important! David On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Sarah Stewart <sarahstewar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone > > My name is Sarah Stewart and I work for the Educational Development Centre at > Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin New Zealand. This year we are working to make our > Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Learning and Teaching fully open access. We > already have a couple of courses that we deliver via Wikieducator: > Facilitating Online (FO2011) (http://wikieducator.org/Facilitating_Online) > and Flexible Learning (http://wikieducator.org/Flexible_Learning_Guidebook). > In the next wee while we plan to have the whole program in Wikieducator. > > We have developed a funding model which we are going to pilot with the FO2011 > which starts next week: > http://facilitatingonlinecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/02/fees-for-facilitating-online-2011.html > At the same time I am getting my head around the issues of OER, funding > models and sustainability. I am particularly interested in hearing from any > educators who currently teach in open access courses, who work with a model > of "conversion" ie working with students who are initially informal students > who then enrol as formal students. I have written a blog post that is > articulating some of the issues I would like to clarify - I would really > appreciate your feedback: > > http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2011/03/trying-to-work-out-research-question.html > > thank you, Sarah > > > > > > > -- > Sarah Stewart > EdD Student and Consultant > http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com > Skype: sarah.m.stewart > Twitter: SarahStewart > Second Life: Petal Stransky > +64 27 7379998 > > -- > 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com