| Overview Klaus has done a very thorough job in researching the motivations and needs of an open courseware website for Stanford. His concept, audience definition and project plan are well-researched and are largely based off of the same model as the previous open courseware sites, especially MIT's site.
Suggestions: In regards to the openness of the courseware to others, Klaus mentioned that "Though main pages on the website should be written for a broader audience, course content need not and should not be altered when published as open courseware." I realize that the issue of the openness of class materials has already been considered, and that faculty would probably be unwilling to bend over backwards to make their teaching more accessible to the web, but I think there are various features that can be added without hassling the faculty. For example, current courseware includes lecture pdfs, and SCPD stuff separately, but with integrated open courseware, you could have the pdfs and SCPD videos, and even possible subtitles at the bottom so that the lecture is more intelligible and accessible. Another suggestion I have (that will probably be answered with the next assignment) is to analyze the differences with having Stanford open up its course materials to the public as opposed to current websites. Klaus has already mentioned many ways in which Stanford's website would be comparable to MIT's, but what are the ways that Stanford would improve upon the current websites out there? What "edge" would Stanford's site have? |
