[FC-discuss] FC Reaching Out To Development Communities?

[Greg Grossmeier]

Kevin Donovan wrote:
> I'm working to bring OpenCourseWare to Georgetown (tips appreciated!) 
> and hopefully it will focus on the role of open educational resources to 
> help developing countries. I'd love to help out with any projects 
> regarding this dev+FC and imagine the folks at http://freedomforip.org/ 
> would, as well.

I would point you to what the University of Michigan is doing.  And not 
only because I am a part of the group working on it.

The difference between what Michigan is doing and what others like MIT 
are doing is that Michigan's is sustainable WITHOUT gobs of money.

At MIT, they have a full time staff that the profs send their materials 
to, if the staff can't clear copyright on a image or something they send 
a request out to someone in India to make a replacement.

What Michigan is doing (just started this past year) is to elicit the 
help of students.  A student who is enrolled in the class will be the 
one vetting the material, asking the prof for citations, and even 
redrawing a flow diagram if need be.  They will be "paid" in class 
credits or a nominal fee (for the Business school students mainly, who, 
at least at Michigan, won't do anything without a monetary reward... but 
I digress).

For more information see: http://open.umich.edu  and 
https://open.umich.edu/projects/oer.php in particular.

Hope that helps.

Greg