Hi Sarah, Thanks for this.
I appreciate that you are measuring the conversion. i.e. sales. Does this mean you will be offering courses on a subscription basis? i.e. "Yes I want to convert, and then onto a sign up and pay page, and then onto a welcome on the google group". No need for Catherine to be involved. (and could you not call it a "Course email group". Facilitator's community sounds so much nicer). I'm also interested whether, re: sustainability, if you are measuring the savings as OER's go into a cloud like Google's. i.e. no app development, hosting, bandwidth, server, etc costs. (as opposed to the institutional server) Obviously by using the wikieducator domain for the serious stuff will throw measurements out of kilter. It's also obviously creating a few probs for those mini conference facilitators as the slides (course materials) tend to get scattered around lots of storage sites like slideshare, elluminate, etc. Archives/storage/ commons is going to require a librarian as the number of course material objects, which can be shared between courses and global WE teachers, gets BIG.. I've already to suggested to Wayne that hosting a Google site might be a good social platform to use, especially as you can associate the "course email group" you already have. It also has the ability to set levels of access, so "conversions" might be made easier, while running one site, for informals and the converted, will help faciltators. You know that old Monty Python skit. Two surgeons talking about their golf over a woman who is about to give birth. "Doctor, doctor, what should I do?" says she. Nothing Dear. You're not qualified". Bring back the midwives I say:) -- 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]
