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

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