I really do like this idea and the idea of a stand-alone Open University Report site sounds great.
My main concern (outside scalability) is the criteria by which we judge. Ideally, it would be objective so we could cross index schools, but what would those be besides Y/N indicators? On 4/27/09, Wesley Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Parker: One of the kids you might remember meeting when I was at > Dartmouth on Sat night worked on GreenReportCard.org a little while back. > Looking at that site tonight has given me the idea that we should try to > create a similar score card with a set of standardized grading criteria > (e.g. administration, licensing, Open Access, etc.). > The way our wiki article is structured right now is clunky, and the > information is admittedly incomplete. How about creating a rundown for each > school similar to the way GRC does it? It's easier (and more fun) to read > and write, plus I think it would be far more appealing to the non-FC crowd > comparing colleges or to those already attending but looking to identify > areas of improvement at their school. > > Do you think the report card portion of OU should spin off and become its > own project and web site? Baby steps first, of course, but I think moving in > that direction could have great potential. > > — W > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM, D Parker Phinney > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> so, some schools are ending for summer very soon. we still have a good >> 5 weeks here at dartmouth, and we plan on spending part of that time >> getting together our OU status report (once controversially referred to >> as a "report card") together. >> >> i encourage other chapters to try to do the same by the end of the >> school year. it would be great to get some kind of press release or >> blog post together early this summer showing where we are and what we've >> done. >> >> >> http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_individual_university_status_and_information >> >> >> an incomplete report is better than a nonexistent one. >> >> -- >> D Parker Phinney >> madebyparker.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > -- Sent from my mobile device Kevin Donovan Georgetown '11: SFS 630.849.8285 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
