Commenti a: OpenEd: week 8 or the sustainability… http://www.fininformatica.it/wp/opened-week-8-or-the-sustainability/ Periodically re-invent yourself!! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 di Pierfranco Ravotto http://www.fininformatica.it/wp/opened-week-8-or-the-sustainability/#comment-19496 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:43:18 +0000 http://www.fininformatica.it/wp/opened-week-8-or-the-sustainability/#comment-19496 Hi Antonio Thank you again for referring to the SLOOP project I have coordinated. Surely we couldn't have run that project without the funding from the European Community. And I don't bet against you on our unfunded survival ... I think that we need to demonstrate that the first funded product is useful, that teachers use it, that it's partially self-sustenaible in order to ask for new funds to develop SLOOP and the freeLOms. Speaking of sustainability of OER I refer both to voluntary work of many people who occasionally share learning materials and to funded or co-funded activities. As far as the "voluntary" activities, I'm happy to use your blog to say David Wiley that a starting point of our project comes from his words: "Faculty have all kinds of material lying around their hard drives as well: syllabi, lecture notes, research instruments, data sets, articles in progress, articles never published, etc. And faculty want access to more of these materials than they have as well. ... Students have all kinds of educational material (learning objects) lying around their hard drives: essays, term papers, other types of homework, notes taken during lectures, etc. And every student wants access to more of these learning objects than they have." (When Worlds Collide). All the best Hi Antonio

Thank you again for referring to the SLOOP project I have coordinated.
Surely we couldn’t have run that project without the funding from the European Community. And I don’t bet against you on our unfunded survival …
I think that we need to demonstrate that the first funded product is useful, that teachers use it, that it’s partially self-sustenaible in order to ask for new funds to develop SLOOP and the freeLOms.

Speaking of sustainability of OER I refer both to voluntary work of many people who occasionally share learning materials and to funded or co-funded activities.

As far as the “voluntary” activities, I’m happy to use your blog to say David Wiley that a starting point of our project comes from his words: “Faculty have all kinds of material lying around their hard drives as well: syllabi, lecture notes, research instruments, data sets, articles in progress, articles never published, etc. And faculty want access to more of these materials than they have as well.
… Students have all kinds of educational material (learning objects) lying around their hard drives: essays, term papers, other types of homework, notes taken during lectures, etc. And every student wants access to more of these learning objects than they have.” (When Worlds Collide).

All the best

]]> di Alessandro Giorni http://www.fininformatica.it/wp/opened-week-8-or-the-sustainability/#comment-18717 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:08:29 +0000 http://www.fininformatica.it/wp/opened-week-8-or-the-sustainability/#comment-18717 We as Italians can't forget the changing fortune and fate of the totally public funded course by INDIRE (www.indire.it). I'm attending now at one of them where 40 people have subscribed (no cost for learners, if you ever asked...) but only 5-8 of them are taking an active participation.... I'm also subscribed to three other ones which aren't so that much alive... And that's all publicly funded and gratis for us - but not open (one need to be a working teacher of the school's ministry in order to be allowed to subscribe). I didn't think to the moodle.org and moodle.com pair, thanks a lot! We as Italians can’t forget the changing fortune and fate of the totally public funded course by INDIRE (www.indire.it).
I’m attending now at one of them where 40 people have subscribed (no cost for learners, if you ever asked…) but only 5-8 of them are taking an active participation….
I’m also subscribed to three other ones which aren’t so that much alive… And that’s all publicly funded and gratis for us - but not open (one need to be a working teacher of the school’s ministry in order to be allowed to subscribe).

I didn’t think to the moodle.org and moodle.com pair, thanks a lot!

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