I like the Way that Rory mentions ten million students as if it is just the norm. TEN MILLION STUDENTS!!!
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 18, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > In a recent interview in the UK, Professor Rory McGreal highlights cost > effectiveness as the key to success of the OERu: > > > "Cost effectiveness is the key… How do we educate these 97 million learners … > in a cost-effective manner? [OERu] .. is the first idea that I’ve seen that > practical implementation is possible. And this could work. > > And the way it’d work is this: if we could get a cadre, so we get ten percent > of them through, so that’s ten million students, but that means there’s a > cadre of students who’ve done it, in all these little villages and towns all > around the world, and they’re an example to the others, and then you can > build on that and build on it and build, and that’s the way you do it. But > not only that; we have developed self-motivated learners, and that’s what you > need - you need a person who is a self motivated learner. That’s more > important than anything they learn. And so we build that up and we’re away…" > > > -- > 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 > Wikiblog > > -- > 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] -- 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]
