User talk:SaraFrankBristow

• Please add four tildes in sequence when saving your changes so I know who wrote what and when - thank you!

Sara's priority list as of 11/8/09

1. Add articles for key entities named in EFQUEL list - not yet reviewed
2. Add articles for key entities in Wikipedia categories like "Open Universities" - not yet reviewed
3. Review Paul's OBHE email of 3/3 for useful OBHE links - per Paul, "With regard to the OBHE lists below she will look mainly at the "distance learning associations" and just quickly check the others in case any Programme leaps out. She will not do the "quality assurance agencies"
4. Add articles for key entities named in OBHE report(s) - Denman report already reviewed and list emailed to Paul
5. Add Stansfield items
6. Work on Guidelines! place on wiki for discussion
7. Scan Jan-Mar emails for items received, e.g. Cseko document, corporate universities list, OBHE list (March 3 email), Old Dominion University, others - the list goes on...
8. Templates and Tidying (Abbreviations, language issues, accents, redirects, etc) - inc. UNESCO?
9. Start Categorisation project - send thoughts to Paul - completed preliminary categorisation
10. Troll "priority" country reports in Re.Vica for programmes - "rest of world" now complete
11. Troll PANdora List

-- SaraFrankBristow 07:59, 31 July 2009 (CEST)

Items Under Discussion

To be resolved:

1. Suspect providers - rename? what?
2. "Mega" entries?
3. Use of "Abbreviations" category - way forward?
4. Disambiguation pages - resolved?
5. Items in Nikki's responses to my suggested guidelines
6. more...

Do We Add

Here is Sara's old "Do We Add" list as posed to Paul in 2008. Some of the items below are not programmes but are lists themselves. Do I pull these institutions from the lists? Etc. Actually, there are some notes below as well... this list is rather outdated but most questions still stand.

From 11/2008:

• Items Sara emailed Paul about, e.g. those in Japan Report (see new section below)
• Laureate Education (i.e. Sylvan) -- added
• Career Education (similar)
• Fédération Interuniversitaire de l’Enseignement à Distance - FIED (Karran)
• From InnoUniLearning:
  • Wirtschaft university, vienna

**Univ. Porto - under Major e-learning initiatives in Portugal

• • University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL)
  • Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Caen (Institute of Corporation
  • ENIC Lille
• Various from Laura Czerniewicz reports (sent to Paul)
• Items at http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=402&contentId=717
• Per geteducated.com email from Paul: The Top 12 Best Online Management Masters degrees, all available at a cost under $21,000 are offered by: #1 University of Missouri Columbia ($9,854); #2 Mountain State University ($11,700); and #3 University of Missouri Columbia ($11,700).
• CSU Global (CO) (do we care?)
• The eLearning industry and market in Europe - Lot 1: Appendix to Synthesis Report by Jane Massy
• All from Canada country report?
• Colombia country report - I cannot evaluate, all sites in Spanish
• Denmark country report - many listed with no real weighting - add all?
• Germany country report - I cannot evaluate, most sites in German
• Removed concordia (estonia) - now merged into other institution, info hard to locate.

SaraFrankBristow 21:40, 15 November 2008 (CET)

From 1/2009:

• Campus Numerique (France) as referenced in the Science Mag article - not sure there is a single body to consider a "programme" here

SaraFrankBristow 06:16, 30 January 2009 (CET)

Other List of Questions Emailed

Now largely outdated.

• Do you feel that ALL occurrences of abbreviations should redirect to the full programme names, with the actual content residing under the full name page? (e.g. move the UKeU content to a full name page, with the abbreviation page set as a redirect only?) Also, should we "activate" ALL abbreviation links, i.e. on the programmes list *and* within each programme page? Where they occur in country pages, etc?

• So far I see only a workshop programme (in Spanish) for the Ibero-American forum... http://www.online-educa.com/iberoamerica-forum-programme. Shall I troll the entities that look like potentially relevant programmes or leave it for now? Anything jump out for you?

• Should new additions have glaring relevance to Re.ViCa (i.e. distance learning oozing from their pores already) or is it enough that <name> mentions a recent visit to meet with their dean? [this question is in reference to emails c. 10/2008]

• ...I am contemplating how to decide whether institutions already named in reports like [the one in Paul's Japan Report email] should be added to the programmes list. For example, it sounds like some of the Japanese universities have very serious e-learning initiatives underway. In fact I often spot examples listed in country reports which do not (yet?) have entries in our programmes list. Would we say that, if it is mentioned anywhere in the wiki, it requires at least a stub? [semi-outdated question as of 1/2009]

• How far from academia do we stray? The Pipeline Project at http://www.pipeline-project.org/ is of interest but I take it that a

"prisoner education" project is too far out of bounds for our purposes?

SaraFrankBristow 21:40, 15 November 2008 (CET)

• NOTE TO SELF:
  Or did you mean Full Institution Name (Abbreviation) in Country?

Comments/Discussion area

Sara, you said "does category:remove work" on eCollege. Well if you consider human actions, it works! I use the category:remove to give people the opportunity to save the entry from removal, but once in a while I go into the dead-end pages, orphaned pages, double redirects and also category:remove and I try to clean everything up a bit. if you've come across a better / automated system or you would like to just remove it immediately, do let me know and I'll do the same. --NikkiCortoos 17:04, 6 August 2009 (CEST)