Oops -- forgot to list Athabasca University in my list of experienced distance education providers.
This was assumed given that I was referencing Rory's experience. <Sorry AU> W On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Don, > > Me too :-) > > Rory speaks from extensive experience in open distance learning and mass > education systems. Consider for example IGNOU in India -- a single mode > distance teaching university which has +3.5 million registered students. ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_National_Open_University). > > You will note that a large number of the founding anchor partners of the > OERu initiative have extensive experience in open distance education > delivery models including the University of Southern Queensland, the > University of Wollongong, Unisa (one of the mega universities of the > world), Empire State College (SUNY), Thompson Rivers University, the Open > Polytechnic, and BAOU. > > I grew up in mass education systems having worked at Unisa for 12 years. > Early in my career I was given the responsibility to coordinate a > foundation course in education studies. At the time, this first year course > had 12,000 enrollments and I learned the tricks of the trade in designing > effective pedagogy for large courses (incidentally we did this with about 8 > full-time faculty equivalents) . So when MOOCs register a few thousand > students and awe about their scale -- distance educators are not > necessarily overwhelmed. We know how to teach effectively with large > numbers of learners and have the research and experience to back us up. > > Viewing this from a network perspective, the OERu founding anchor partners > have the collective experience to design systems that will work for +10 > million OERu learners. > > Watch this space ... > > Wayne > > > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Don Beadle > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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<http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-news/p/691506005/terry-anderson-and-rory-mcgreal-speak-about-athabasca-university-and-the-oeru> >> 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 <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. >> Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> >> Director, International Centre for Open Education, >> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> Founder and elected Community Council Member, >> WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> >> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 >> Skype: WGMNZ1 >> Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | >> <http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh>identi.ca >> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: <http://www.wikieducator.org> >> http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: >> <http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator> >> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to <[email protected]> >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <[email protected]> >> [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] > > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. > Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> > Director, International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and elected Community Council Member, > WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | > identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> > Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> > > -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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