On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:48 AM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
It seems like you're saying that the model "do things because your find them personally satisfying" doesn't appeal to you, and instead you prefer the model "do things because you can make money or get academic credit." Maybe you should head over to the business school. I have met many, many people whose model is "do things because you love to do them" instead of "do things to make money", and I've met some that prefer your model. The ones who do things because they love them appear much more satisfied, even if they have less money. -- William > > > > -- > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
