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Megs Planet: Week 8: Economic Models of Open Education

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idee on 2008-01-19
- I think the first thing to consider is that "sustainable" can have a lot of different meanings in the educational context. It can mean: a) not going into the red financially b) continually having people visit and learn from your ed materials c) continually building materials on your site for yourself d) continually having others contribute new material to your site. Wiley's definition of sustainability encompasses all three of these meanings individually and in combination:
  sustainability will be defined as an open educational resource project’s ongoing ability to meet its goals.
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- - Why would we want to offer free credentialized degrees, unless those free degrees were essentially paid for by the taxpayers funding a public university? What are the benefits of this? How does "giving away degrees" interact with notions of quality? I mean, we have a hard enough time getting quality OER that aren't accredited. How much harder would it be to ensure the quality of a credentialized degree? Without such quality checks, would our degrees become meaningless??
    
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  - And if one argues that Uni's wouldn't make any money using the German model (even though society benefits hugely, including the German economy on the whole) - I think it's only fair to question why should Universities be in the business of making money?!?! Why have we chosen this social model, given how important education facilities are in our societies. As far as I know, this is a more recent trend - as compared to the past. If we are so concerned in OER about contributing to the common good, then one really should think about the common good in other areas, such as through traditional educaiton facilities.
    
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  - I would like a schedule that had reading and writing one week and then reading others' thoughts and responding the following week. It would also be nice to have some structured iteration back to previous course topics since it's all so related. I haven't had quite enough hours in the day to do as much of that as I'd like.
    
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  - I'd be interested in some different ideas for some group discussion...maybe a Skype chat or perhaps we could make up a group page over at the opencontent.org wiki. I notice that the Community Portal page is empty. Maybe we should take it over.:)
    
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Start a New Edu. World....: OpenEdu Week 8: Economic Models of Open Education

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- I think we need more time to digest the new knowledge or information after self-reading and more time to receive the feedback from instructor and classmates. Keep large amount of weekly reading without feedbacks is too pushing
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