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robbkvasnak (Tunjukkan profil) 2 Maret 2015 16.15.03
Secondly, many students here - especially those in doctoral programs and post-docs volunteer teach (I did and in fact I still due since I have my pension.)
Thirdly, yes, as time goes by, professors should have a salary and students should pay - maybe on a 'resources based' model. I find that some courses which are free where I teach are not heavily attended. My English classes are only well attended because I work with each student individually based on the student's personal needs.
Red_Rat_Writer (Tunjukkan profil) 3 Maret 2015 05.02.23
1. Getting accredidation would be extremely costly and difficult. The online schools that I see started out as accredited physical schools, and then later on started on online program. I would doubt that a website would be accredited by an agency. So, at least initially, we should forget about it be an accredited college (unless a millionaire would like to step in and help us).
[Once again, this may be different in other countries. This is the case for the US]
2. I believe the most valuable careers would be in fields where degrees aren't necessary. A few examples of these are Web Design, Graphic Design and Writing (in a lot of cases). If we were create courses in this studies and others like it, individuals may be rewarded by knowing Esperanto.
3. Two groups of people that can benefit from a non-accredited education would be homeschoolers and autodidacts. Homeschoolers are people who are taught by their parents instead of going to elementary school and middle school (they usually attend a normal highschool)*. If we created an entire education that a parent homeschooling their child could use, then that might be a big help.
Then the autodidacts. We can just have courses for people who learn for the sake of learning. Like, people who read history books for fun and what not.
4. Something else that would be beneficial would provide all the materials for the education but for free or for a reduced cost so students going to an actual college won't have to pay as much. I.e., textbook prices are extremely high and have been increasing. There are a lot of programs making open source textbooks. A lot of the time, these books are in English but if we were to translate them into Esperanto then that would open it up to a lot of people. People could use these textbooks instead paying a ton of money for the assigned ones.
But we would have to get permission to translate and distribute the books.
5. If we could get a bunch of old literature translated a bunch of old literature into Esperanto, then people all over the world could enjoy the gems of the other culture, ex Pride and Prejudice could be translated into Esperanto allowing other cultures to enjoy it.
I'm actually in the process of making a website that deals a lot with graphic design tips and how tos. I'm going to translate all of my articles into Esperanto and I was eventually going to make an ebook. When I become a professional graphic design and get some experience, I can start teaching a course. And since it's graphic deign, I don't need accredidation.
(PS, sorry for any errors in here, I've had a long week and I'm too lazy to do any major proofreading)
se (Tunjukkan profil) 25 Maret 2015 14.15.14
Now, let the machine take over the course and let the confusion begins.
There are many ways to help the unfortunate but till now. I could hardly read about the massive scale of helping or aids from the Esperantujo besides the African orphanage home. But it is still badly run.
My personal experience with lernu tutor. I had a young man at the begining and few months later, he quit the tutoring programme. As lernu learning programme is not a fixed programmo, the learner can take time to learn Esperanto.
Few months later, I submitted my work, another one took over.
If we depend on the volunteers, the work would not be that idea. They can come and go. The tracking of the learning is not there.
Providing the suitable monetary rewards should be considered. If the lecturers who are on pension scheme and would like to help the poor ones, they can donate the money to the fund.
This is the problem of the Esperantujo, wanting free items, but there is not free lunch in the world.
A very good example, the Cambodia Esperanto tourism started for more than a year but not getting good response. How long can the Cambodian esperantists survive are in doubt.
ChuckWalter (Tunjukkan profil) 29 Maret 2015 02.59.20
Red_Rat_Writer:Getting accredidation would be extremely costly and difficult. The online schools that I see started out as accredited physical schools, and then later on started on online program. I would doubt that a website would be accredited by an agency. So, at least initially, we should forget about it be an accredited college (unless a millionaire would like to step in and help us).I agree that it should start as a place for free knowledge, without needing to be accredited. What I have in mind is translating websites like Khan Academy and MOOCs into esperanto, as well as educational YouTube videos like Crash Course.
Since Khan Academy's goal is free education for everyone, I don't think they would be opposed to it's translation into Esperanto. This is more k-12 and gen ed knowledge, whereas MOOCs is strictly college level. I am not very familiar with the content of MOOCs, so I am not sure what they would think about translators.
Rugxdoma (Tunjukkan profil) 29 Maret 2015 16.41.25
Tempodivalse:There is a website called Wikiversity which aims to host free (as in freely-licensed and freely accessible) education resources and (original) scholarly projects in multiple languages. It is a sister-project of Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Anyone can come and contribute, but specialists in certain topics are particularly sought. It forms a kind of "informal" college.There is also another sister project to Wikipedia, Wikibooks. Its Esperanto version, Vikilibroj, already is in function. If there is somebody who has prepared or will prapare some textbooks or other teaching aid, they already can put the texts there. As the availability of teaching aids is one crucial point, although perhaps not the most difficult one, I only can encourage them to do that as quickly as possible, so that it can easily be seen what is lacking, for the courses to start. I myself have put two textbooks there, and plan to put some more. Unfortunately they are not in the areas relevant to your prioritized idea about management.
There is an Esperanto language edition, but it is still in the "incubator", meaning that it does not have its own domain (yet) due to lack of users and materials. All it would take is a few dedicated users to make it active and be transferred to eo.wikiversity.org - similar to eo.wikipedia.org.
From Wikipedia's description:[Wikiversity] differs from more structured projects such as Wikipedia in that it instead offers a series of tutorials, or courses, for the fostering of learning, rather than formal content.The advantage here is that the technical and infrastructure aspects are mostly taken care of by the Foundation. All one needs is a little knowledge of wiki-syntax and one can just start contributing.
Perhaps this is not what you had in mind, but I thought I should mention it.
robbkvasnak (Tunjukkan profil) 29 Maret 2015 17.19.21
Elhana2 (Tunjukkan profil) 29 Maret 2015 19.15.44
Alkanadi (Tunjukkan profil) 30 Maret 2015 06.05.54
Elhana2:Are there any teaching books for Esperanto itself, to begin with?Do you mean books written in Esperanto for the purposed of academic instruction? If so, I don't think there are any. But, maybe wikipedia could be used.
It is for reasons such as this that opening a College or University seems very impractical. Like someone else said, why not provide a community translation for Khan University?
se (Tunjukkan profil) 30 Maret 2015 06.10.40
Elhana2:Are there any teaching books for Esperanto itself, to begin with?Do not waste your time to response to this person nick name Elhana2, many Esperantists have explained tons of information to the person. This person must be suffering some psycho problem for keeping on to ask the same question as if a beginner and later would argue with you.
This person is smarter now for not saying Esperanto is bad in the beginning but slowly get you into trap. Those in the past have the information of this person, please place it in the lernu.
Elhana2 (Tunjukkan profil) 30 Maret 2015 09.52.54
Alkanadi:Do you mean books written in Esperanto for the purposed of academic instruction?I meant the course of Esperanto language itself: that would be a logical step to begin with. That would prove there are some professionals in education in the movement.