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The Billion Dollar Question... "How does Higher Education turn its OER into money?"
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How can you help bring about eSingularity?
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Why are so many duped by Second Life?
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An update... we are looking to be a force in building such platform for Asia who has an educational crisis http://bit.ly/3jzE8d. Something to consider, there are over 6000 languages and less than 5% of the world has broadband connectivity how will...
great Jim will check out the links
Michael:
1. You are not a rebel introducing the idea of free higher education to a waiting world. the idea is a commonplace, widely held, but with its prospects increasingly dim in this time of economic troubles.
Umm yes I am. But, if you don't ...
Michael, you are correct; I was using the terms profit and turning something into a revenue stream as having the same meaning. I doubt that MIT is considering either course of action with respect to their OCW program.
If someone uses a course ava...
please don't add words to my question... I never used the word profit. And I never said anything about changing OCW direction only asking could it be added too? And I never said it would take up time from professors. think about what I am suggesti...
Michael, I doubt that the MIT provost is considering strategies to make a profit out of the OWC initiative because changing OWC directions at this point would be dramatically counter to what MIT has publicly stated. However, I could see someone ap...
Michael:
1. You are not a rebel introducing the idea of free higher education to a waiting world. the idea is a commonplace, widely held, but with its prospects increasingly dim in this time of economic troubles.
2. Education is never free: some...
Let me put it this way.... If someone took the OER offered for free and embedded it in a 10-yr tested, patented and proven learning outcomes engine with million users and gave away the complete package to learning organization, institution, school...
I disagree... OCW has just been around since 2003 around the same time social networks and web 2.0 started to take off. It wasn't created make money and we all know that edu institutions are slow to move and act. But its naive to think that if OCW...
I think people like to complicate things that are in fact actually straight forward. I think you are naive to say that about MIT. The e-revolution or education revolution has nothing to do with technology and all to do with making learning a natur...
Michael, if MIT and the other 160 or so institutions participating in the OCW initiative wanted to make money via online courses open to anyone in the world, they would have already done so. However, given their stature as leading research univers...
Gentlemen, this is a forum for professional exchange. Let's keep the tone civil.
Jim
Michael, you ask:
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying.
Consider avoiding the history of "the free education movement": it is a much longer and complicated history than you're aware of now, and
Steve, thanks for the post and valuable info. "The intent of the OER institutions like MIT is NOT to make money." -- so you are saying that MIT would not want to make $$ off their OER is a way could be demonstrated? Why not have an easy to use OCW...
The intent of the OER institutions like MIT is NOT to make money. Quite the opposite:OER costs MIT a great deal, and a number of foundations have contributed large sums to the OER initiative. The motivation is provide high-quality teaching materia...
Why would you allow ignorant comments make you angry :p I find them amusing and they always make me laugh which you know is good for your health.
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