Hi Simon Thanks for the comments which have been very useful.
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:34 AM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > Like this idea of a sign up button - I am going to recommend that we look at this sort of an approach. The truth is...sorting out the institution's internal enrolment processes has been quite difficult...it's a work in progress. Once we have those sorted, we'll be able to progress with ideas like the sign-up button. > > 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) > At the moment I am not doing an in depth analysis of finance. I have been mostly thinking about the cost of the facilitator's time which has been the biggest issue to sort out. But I get your point about 'cloud' computing...hadn't thought of that as being a saving. Thanks. > > 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.. > Good point about needing a librarian. If an artefact is created that I think is really useful, I integrate it into the next course. But I don't do that too much because I do not want to over-whelm students. > > 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. > I am struggling at the moment with figuring what access informals have to course communication and how much I can contribute as the paid facilitator. With this iteration of FO2011, I am not giving informal access to the email group - they only get access if they pay. I am feeling uncomfortable with it, but will see how it goes. > > 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:) > > Love this video...I use it when teaching students and we look at medicalisation and technology in childbirth. Whilst the skit is funny, sadly there's a lot of truth in it...far too many "machines that go ping' in our hospitals :) cheers 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
