OK- Here is a tidbit, how tiddy and how bitty i don't know. The local dean
LOVED the idea of an international course, SOME of whose participants got
credit for a grad course at UCSD, some of whose participants got their
credit locally. She worried a little about costs. I said none. She said
what about costs of streaming. I said, our local video folks are so happy
to see us experimenting that for now forget that. She said, well, we could
easily arrange for them to credit for a UCSD grad course, a regular course,
for example, "Advanced course in mediational theories of mind" that I am
giving in the spring, for the transaction costs of them getting a bona fide
transcript for this course from UCSD. Cost, estimated at 75$.
I said I had no idea of demand (anyone who can get credit locally for zero
$ clearly ought to). But she agreed that even though i give the course
officially/locally in the spring quarter (10 weeks) that there is no problem
in following (for example) David's idea of starting in sept and going through
spring at a pace that makes sense (after all, its in experiment) and then
getting credit in the spring when locally the course is being given.
So, here is one part of one model. Perhaps there are better ways. I guess there
have to be better ways in principle. But its what I could arrange today.
I hear there is a dynamite new education grad program at UCSC that is not
unfriendly to chat ideas.
Yakata yakata
mike
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