They say.. ...... So, Flooved made a bold move and went for a complete paradigm shift: through social collaboration and by opening up the access student’s across the world have to knowledge. ... . Given that they chose to present themselves in English, it is disappointing that they can't write better. Or even know where not to put an apostrophe:)
The idea that students should have free access to educational material somewhat conflicts with the currently prevailing sentiment that persons who spend their time to create such material should be financially compensated. One way around this is for schools to provide textbooks, e-book, etc for enrolled students, schools that are supported by some public funding. An alternative is for the support of public libraries where texts (etc.) may be borrowed at no charge. If a professor provides material to flooved, he/she gets nothing, but flooved gets revenue (so they hope) by re-transmitting the professor's notes with advertising, Another model is that they make money by selling students' names. that is, they use the same model proposed by the for-profit MOOCs. The MOOCs supposedly support the development of courses and perhaps reimburse the professors. This is not, it seems, part of flooved. Flooved's model seems simpler: "Give us your open-source stuff so we can sell it." They claim it will be "curated" by part time people who are "super bright". Who owns the curated version? Uh, they don't say. Professors don't usually get academic credit for texts -- not like articles in academic journals etc. They write texts for fame and fortune, though they may actually earn a pittance much of the time. This model doesn't appeal to me. Though there appear to be people who freely apply their skills to problem solving on open-source blogs, sometimes providing correct answers. Uncompensated except perhaps for getting a gold star by their names. Reminds me of elementary school, that star business. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
