Thank you. This is excellent. Is anybody in your department, or elsewhere working with you, looking at the issues of infrastructure for adult education? For example, West Africa has had an optical fiber connection for only a few years, and East Africa got its first just last summer. There are six more cables in various stages of deployment or organization. There is a funded plan to run optical fiber cables from the coastal landing points to the dozen landlocked countries of Africa, with Rwanda in the lead. Rwanda also has an international communications company laying out a system of optical fiber cables from the capital to all of its other cities, with plans for further connections in a mix of technologies all the way to the villages.
The other essential element of infrastructure is electricity. Plans for national power grids are far behind communications deployments. This means that we need research and development to find and deploy the most appropriate renewable power solutions locally for every inhabited terrain and climate. Options include solar (PV or thermal), wind, microhydro, biofuels (preferably not made from food crops, unless a quite large surplus can be created), animal, and (for schools) child power. Two other essential elements are microfinance and replacing printed textbooks with interactive electronic learning materials. OLPC XO laptops already cost less than textbooks in most countries, and with the expected appearance of a $75 successor to the XO, that will extend to all but the poorest of poor countries, those that simply cannot afford good textbooks of any kind now. Microfinance is essential for the creation of jobs in countries with bad government planning and policies, and also to fund the infrastructure for both jobs and education. Each of these is an area where training of adults is vital--teachers, entrepreneurs, microbankers, translators, subject-matter experts to create the learning materials on local agriculture, forest products, water, health, and all the rest. We need at least one electricity vendor and one sysadmin/ISP person per village, able to maintain equipment and services and manage a business. Then we can discuss e-commerce for art and craft items unique to a village or a region; larger business opportunities by processing, storing, and marketing fresh and processed agricultural products; IT services for other businesses, including Web sites and software development; outsourcing; and the rest of the base for a globally integrated economy. I have tried to interest business schools in these topics, so far to no avail. Everybody talks about the bottom of the pyramid, but it seems that nobody wants to be the one to do anything about it. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 22:11, <joyce.mckni...@esc.edu> wrote: > It will be quite comprehensive and will include several different strands > that will enable students to design their degree programs (as they can in > our undergraduate programs). It does have an international stands, an > online/distance learning stand, and a social justice strand (along with a > human resource development thread and an adult learning/cognition strand). > We think that most students will already be practitioners who want a high > quality online program that can be designed around their own area of > practice. We will use a praxis model. The social justice thread that I am > helping to create will be largely based on Freire, Myles Horton, and Gandhi > among others and will include literacy issues. The international and > distance learning components will include OER. As I said, students will be > able to "mix and match" studies under the guidance of a faculty mentor. > Since we are one of the largest primarily adult serving educations in the US > and have about forty years of serving adults with limited access to higher > education, we anticipate that those students who do not presently have a > practice site will be able to work with us in internships. (Pardon me if my > terminology is shaky...it is 1 a.m. here. J. > > Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> > > Sent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > 12/17/2009 10:00 PM PSTPlease respond towikieduca...@googlegroups.com > > To wikieducator@googlegroups.com > cc > bcc Joyce McKnight/SUNY > Subject Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ? > > > Will your curriculum cover adult education in the US only, or will you > take a wider view? I have done some work on adult literacy, and there > are many other such issues. > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 21:57, <joyce.mckni...@esc.edu> wrote: >> Yes sir. In fact we are in the process of developing our graduate >> curriculum right now in preparation for applying to the Department of >> Education of the State of New York for certification. I am part of the >> team creating the program and will suggest that we offer this course as a >> part of our curriculum. I have already suggested something similar. J. >> >> Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> >> Sent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> 12/18/2009 05:12 PM ZE12Please respond towikieduca...@googlegroups.com >> >> To wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> cc >> bcc Joyce McKnight/SUNY >> Subject Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ? >> >> >> Hi Joyce, >> >> With reference to your new MA in Adult Learning -- you may be interested >> in >> a project we will be moving forward in the new year. >> >> The OER Foundation will be co-coordinating and facilitating the >> development >> (and remix of available materials) for a graduate level course on OER. The >> idea is for individual organisations to get the necessary approvals for an >> OER elective in their respective degree and/or graduate certificate >> courses. >> We will collaborate on the development and remix of learning resources >> which >> can be used for the OER elective. These core materials on OER will be >> licensed under a free cultural works approved license. >> >> Athabasca University, Massey University (here in New Zealand), Otago >> Polytechnic and BYU have indicated a strong interest in getting the local >> certifications and approvals in place for a graduate OER elective. There >> are >> other institutions who have expressed interest -- but are still to confirm >> participation. Perhaps SUNY/Empire State College would like to join us on >> this adventure :-) >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> >> 2009/12/18 <joyce.mckni...@esc.edu> >> >> The research arm is a great idea. Will you be working with Athabasca on >> that? SUNY/Empire State College has close connections there both >> institutionally and personally with Terry Anderson. We are also seeking >> to >> increase our research publications especially in adult and online learning >> (and education) and are in the process of trying to launch a Master's of >> Arts in Adult Learning that will have strong social justice and online >> components. My own leaning is toward a Gandhian approach so >> philosophically it is a perfect match for me and for many others here as >> well. This is deeply exciting to me. Joyce McKnight >> >> >> Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> >> Sent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> 12/18/2009 10:13 AM ZE12Please respond towikieduca...@googlegroups.com >> >> >> To wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> cc >> bcc Joyce McKnight/SUNY >> Subject Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ? >> >> >> Hi Joyce, >> >> All excellent suggestions --- We will definitely be using making lists of >> institutions of who we might like to approach for prospective memberships >> and keep track of our progress in terms of who we've contacted, feedback >> etc. Using an open philanthropy model -- this is easily done :-) >> >> Our reach and support throughout the developing world is very important >> for >> us -- WE believe that we should share knowledge freely and build capacity >> in >> partnership with educators from around the globe. I suspect that many of >> us >> in the "industrialised" countries will learn and gain more than we >> contribute. >> >> You're right -- the public service and outreach missions (associated with >> modern universities) provides a justifiable framework for collaboration in >> OER. That's a good point. We are also planning to cover the research >> mission >> through the launch of WikiResearcher.org in the near future :-) >> >> These are exciting times and WE're most appreciate of your advice and >> guidance in helping us make OER futures happen. >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> >> 2009/12/18 <joyce.mckni...@esc.edu> >> >> Idea: How about making a list (if you don't already have one of >> well-established distance education institutions that we especially want >> to >> have as partners and develop a strategy for "courting" them. In the US >> the >> Pennsylvania State University World Campus and the University of Maryland >> would be two in addition, of course, to SUNY/Empire State College I am >> sure there are many others worldwide. In the US public universities have >> a >> research, teaching, and public service as the three "legs" of the mission. >> Wikieducator with its focus on the developing world (and for that matter >> peripheral areas of the so called "developed" world) clearly would be >> within >> the public service mission of these organizations. Within the >> institutional level, you might want to identify and "court" folks who >> share >> your Gandhian views. You have certainly "hooked" me that way. :-) All >> the best. 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