@Kevin: Right, determining the criteria and their point weight seems to be the hardest part. Each category, such as Open Access or Network Filtering ought to be broken down into smaller, simple questions like "has the university considered Open Access?" or "is the university in discussion about implementing OA?" The point is to make the overall grading criteria as granular as possible. Besides Y/N questions, I can't think of another way to make a objective judgment—using a scale of 1-5 clearly isn't an option. So in any subcategory, a YES may yield any number of points. This grading system obviously will be finessed later. *I think assembling the criteria bank will be the toughest part.* *...@christina: Sure. Let's say that the overall criteria index is worth 50 points. You'd need at least 45 points for an "A"-range grade. However, we're running into the same problem of objectiveness if our definition of openness isn't based in numbers. So, openness might have to be defined by 10 or so Y/N questions.
@Alex: Would appreciate that! Parker H and I already had a discussion about this recently. I think this project has a lot of potential, and I'm glad we're picking up steam again. Anyone else who hasn't chimed in on this thread interested in forming a more formal committee to work on this? On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Alex Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: > ccLearn is starting up a project to create a database for University > copyright ownership policies in a Semantic MediaWiki format. I should be > able to give you all more information about that soon so that you could use > it and/or contribute to it, but it isn't quite ready yet. > > - Alex > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Kevin Donovan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Alex Kozak > [email protected] > 916.225.2718 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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