Remove one zero in the last line of computation. On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Maria Droujkova <droujk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Muvaffak and others, > > I like your call to think big. For the purpose, please consider the notion > of combinatorics for course design. It comes from the principle of > individualized and localized instruction. > > There are several dozen major "schools of economics" that want their > "Economy 101" to be quite different: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economics Let us say, 30. > > Different career paths require different beginner courses. At the very > least, people who go into social sciences, physical sciences, and > mathematics and statistics want different approaches to their economics. > Multiply 30*30=90 at the very least, though ideally, courses address much > more narrow fields, such as "Economy 101 for freelance curriculum designers" > :-) > > Then consider developmental stages of learners. Economy 101 at the level of > elementary arithmetic is very different from Economy 101 for post-doctorates > who never happened to look at economics before. Traditional levels are > elementary, secondary, undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate, though > this system is very crude - but let's take it for now, so we have 90*5=450 > > There are a lot of choices in course design by how it is taught. Each > choice means significant course redesign. > Individually paced or lock-step paced? 450*2=900 > Individual learning, small group, or large group? 900*3=2700 > Teacher-driven or peer-to-peer? 2700*2=5400 > Project-based or exercise-based? 5400*2=108,000 > There are dozens more such variables. > > Then there are choices by media (rich media vs. books vs. experiential), by > country and language and culture, by the length and the depth of the > course... I think I made the point that the number of Economy 101 courses it > would be good to have in the world, if education is to be individualized and > localized, is measured by millions, not tens. > > In practice, this means going for highly modular structures of curriculum > design. Categories such as those I named above become tags for curricular > activities. Then a learner or an educator can put together a course by > computer-assisted search through the database of course activities. Every > new activity added to the system multiplies the possibilities of course > creation, just like each new type of Lego blocks multiplies the number of > possible constructions. > > Returning to Muvaffak's call - let's think big! Modular, open and > combinatorial ideas in course and platform design definitely support it. > > Cheers, > Dr. Maria Droujkova > http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com > > Make math your own, to make your own math. > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Muvaffak Gozaydin > <mgozay...@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> Why people make fad of everthing. >> Now OER is the new fashion . >> OER, ONLINE, OCW are for billions. >> They have to be managed by the government of the world. That is United >> Nation. >> Unfortunately they do not do their job well. >> All efforts and funds are wasted by many organisation. >> A very simple case >> There are 5000 Introduction nto Economics 101 ONLINE course in the >> world. >> >> Each one has cost about $ 100.000 may be more . This is waste of money. >> And also out of 5000 courses may be 4900 of them just a garbage. >> World needs only may be 50 or so Introduction to Economics 101 online >> course. >> Well but as always a good organiser is needed. >> Unfortunately there is only one but also not a good one organisation UN. >> Wake up gentelmen of the world. Have vision. >> Do not involve in small matters. Think big, think great . >> Muvaffak Gozaydin of Turkey mgozay...@hotmail.com >> www.globalonlineuniversitiesconsortium.org for 7 billion people of the >> world . At no cost . >> make it bigger . That is only bunch of LINKS. But best in the world. >> >> >> muvaffak gozaydin >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: a.ca...@unesco.org >> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:10:16 +0100 >> Subject: [OERU] Re: [WikiEducator] UNESCO social networking platform for >> the OER community -- Worth joining >> To: mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com >> CC: echer...@gmail.com; wikieducator@googlegroups.com; >> wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; >> oer-univers...@googlegroups.com >> >> >> Hi Edward, Wayne, all members of the WikiEducator Community >> >> The UNESCO OER Programme is focused on: >> 1. OER Policy Development - Education Sector >> 2. a new, innovative OER Platform - Communication and Information (CI) >> Sector >> >> I'm responsible for the OER Platform which will make selected UNESCO >> publications available as fully-licensed OERs allowing our global >> communities of practice to freely copy, adapt, and share. The Platform's in >> development and should be launched by the end of this year. >> >> It's common-sense to directly link with your global OER community to >> collect the best thoughts on developing the Platform so it was a pleasure to >> resurrect the original OER Community that was maintained by Susan D'Antoni. >> We didn't like the split between a Wiki and the SYMPA e-mail list and we >> needed both standard and new, advanced features for community interaction. >> >> We'd been using the open-source Elgg social network system for a little >> while for the WSIS Community and made the firm decision to go for it with >> Elgg for the 'new' OER Community. As Elgg is open-source we've already >> developed several new features and plugins and will be working on quite a >> list of more advanced features including SSO. The original OER Wiki is still >> available but we're cleaning it, putting up a big sign pointing to the 'new' >> OER Community, then locking it, slowly moving the best stuff across to the >> new Community Platform. >> >> We really like the OER university initiative and have persuaded Wayne to >> completely host all online activities on the OER Community. We hope you will >> join the OER Community and share your enthusiasm for the OERu. Very shortly, >> Wayne will be issuing a personal invitation to all members of the OER >> University Google Group to join the (UNESCO) OER Community. To respect the >> rights of the WikiEducator Community, Wayne's asking all members to contact >> him for an invitation. >> >> The new OER Community is for everyone. My OER colleagues in the Education >> Sector who have several major Policy activities with the Commonwealth of >> Learning will also be hosting 1 or 2 online events on the Community. The >> EC-funded Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) will be hosting 3 >> online activities. >> >> We invite any organization who'd like to hold online activities with a >> rapidly growing global OER Community to work with UNESCO to achieve this. We >> look forward to seeing you in the Community. >> >> Regards, >> Abel >> >> OER Programme >> UNESCO >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < >> mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> HI Edward, >> >> You're right -- there is not much discussion on the site yet -- its new. >> >> Abel Caine, from the OER Programme from the Communication and Information >> (CI) Sector at UNESCO is taking the lead in setting up an international OER >> discussion community with a number of sub-community discussions. It appears >> that international OER discussions now have a committed home within UNESCO >> system and that the CI sector is serious about supporting ongoing OER >> discussions. >> >> Previously IIPE at UNESCO hosted a number of email-based OER forums, but >> they closed the discussions after each session :-(. The IIPE at UNESCO, who >> hosted these email discussion lists, were reluctant to migrate to a >> web-based platform. The old OER wiki hosted by IIPE at UNESCO has also been >> neglected (http://oerwiki.iiep.unesco.org) and sadly, it has been getting >> a fair share of spam with little community support to help monitor the >> problem. >> >> I'm pleased to see that UNESCO are using an OSS platform (elgg) for this >> new initiative. They are also committing code improvements back to the elgg >> community and great to see an international agency getting involved in >> supporting FOSS developments. >> >> The OER Foundation is keen to help and support UNESCO in building a >> representative international discussion place for OER. I think UNESCO is a >> good place to host these kinds of discussions because this avoids the issues >> associated with institution-based projects. >> >> We're planning to host the OER university planning discussions on the >> platform and will give this a try. >> >> At the moment the site doesn't support self-registration -- but the OER >> Foundation will assist anyone from our community who would like to >> participate in our relevant groups. I understand that the UNESCO team are >> looking at an OpenID / self-registration solution. >> >> So let's keep the pressure on UNESCO to get self-registration sorted ;-) >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> Is anybody using this site? I went to look again, and I don't see any >> discussion. >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 01:01, Wayne Mackintosh >> <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > UNESCO have established a social networking platform for OER community >> > discussions with particular emphasis on building policy for sustainable >> OER >> > futures. >> > >> > I must compliment Abel Caine and the team at the UNESCO's Communication >> and >> > Information sector because: >> > >> > This fills an important gap in the burgeoning field of OER -- namely >> focused >> > international discussions on policy development for open education. >> > UNESCO have listened to the feedback and comments from many OER >> > practitioners around the world for a web-based environment for these >> open >> > discussions - preferably a list which remains open and not "closed >> down" >> > after each scheduled discussion. >> > Running the platform using the popular open source elgg environement. I >> > understand that UNESCO have contributed code improvements back to the >> > community. Well done UNESCO! >> > >> > I encourage all WikiEducators with an interest in helping form and >> co-design >> > international policy around OERs to join the community. >> > >> > See: >> > >> > >> http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer/ >> > >> > I look forward to sharing ideas with international colleagues via this >> great >> > community resource. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Wayne >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> > Director OER Foundation >> > Director, International Centre for Open Education, >> > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> > Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator >> > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> > Skype: WGMNZ1 >> > Twitter | identi.ca >> > >> > -- >> > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin >> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. >> http://www.earthtreasury.org/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> Director OER Foundation >> Director, International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter | identi.ca >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "OER university" group. >> To post to this group, send email to oer-univers...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> oer-university+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en >> Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "OER university" group. >> To post to this group, send email to oer-univers...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> oer-university+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en >> Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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