[Imc-makerspace] Discussion of online course offerings

[Chris Ritzo]

Charles,

Thanks for writing and expressing your interest. What you've described is
certainly possible and highly desirable. It certainly would be an extension
of our skillshare concept and the classes could be offered either online or
in-person. In either case the IMC and in particular the makerspace group
would be a perfect place to provide this community service. We have hosting
infrastructure available and could discuss how it might happen.

The best thing might be to come to an upcoming open hours to talk more.

Here's a link to our calendar.  http://www.makerspaceu.org/?q=node/4

Hope to see you soon.

Best, Chris Ritzo


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I am relatively new to the IMC in general and this list in particular. I
> searched the archives (thanks, Google) to see if there had been any prior
> discussion of online courses, but did not find any. So here goes.
>
> Aside from my day-time job as an Oracle DBA with the University, I also
> teach an evening class at Parkland (SQL 101, sometimes other DB Admin
> classes that are more advanced). I am occasionally asked if these classes
> are available online. Unfortunately, they are not yet sculpted for an online
> offering, but it got me to wondering. Parkland is charging a pretty decent
> price and has many options to transfer your credits to a 4-year institution,
> and even offers Associate Degrees and various Certificates of its own. But
> what about folks who simply want to learn a new technology? What if a free
> online course could be offered? This idea is reinforced by MIT's success
> with OCW [linky not provided, as this is my first email to the list - just
> google mit ocw].
>
> Has this idea been bridged with the IMC crowd, yet? Just curious. The
> challenge of implementing such an idea has several factors. Probably the
> most resource intensive is setting up a hosting environment. Another factor
> is preparing the course material for online consumption, but I am kinda
> tinkering with that anyway.
>
> I read a little on the IMC website about skillshares, and it seems to me
> that such a online course is simply an extension of skillshares. You folks
> at IMC, and especially in the makerspace, do some awesome things, and I am
> excited about getting involved.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Charles Schultz
>
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