---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.uu.tools,alt.education.distance From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: ADMIN: resources needed Message-ID: <1992Aug2.112734.4314@nntp.hut.fi> Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 11:27:34 GMT Lines: 10 Some resources which would be valuable and need volunteers to implement: - an archive available by ftp containing all the UU groups - a mailing list echo or mailing list echos for either just alt.uu.announce or both alt.uu.announce and alt.uu.future You can either contact me or volunteer in alt.uu.future. //Jyrki ---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: ADMIN: documents needed, material for FAQ Message-ID: <1992Aug2.120749.5401@nntp.hut.fi> Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 12:07:49 GMT Lines: 72 Food for thought, FAQ material, ideas which pop into mind, possible divisions for the admin groups of UU - these kinds of things need to be decided / documented. Some ideas for answers are presented to get started but not meant to be authoritative - everything is open for discussion. - What UU is - a short summary, see the article posted - "Constitution" - why UU has been created, what is the purpose - how is UU governed - how new topics/disciplines are created - how new discussion groups/hierarchies are created - how are the rules changed - will documents published via UU be required to be freely distributable among UU participants and/or to anyone - are there people responsible for groups/topics as moderators, are there people with special positions in UU - openness, actions and decisions public, etc. - Goals: short-range, long-range - Plans - what is being done / will be done to achieve the goals - short-range plans - long-range plans - Who is UU for - anyone who can access and is interested in learning, since it's open - having Usenet access is a plus, Internet access more so - What can you study in UU - What is needed to participate in UU - technology: text-only, graphics, sound - connections to Usenet/Internet/phonenet(modems) - getting a newsfeed/getting alt.uu.* - access to a book library/internet? - freenets, possible public libraries with terminal rooms, public access systems - Who are participating in UU - everyone ;-) - volunteers: students, tutors, .. - lots of material comes from Usenet / Internet in general - Can one graduate from UU (get a certificate accepted elsewhere) - currently no, for a while probably no official - perhaps you can do learning in UU, then go to another U for exams - it is possible UU will later cooperate with another university - Ways of learning in UU - how does it differ from other U's? - finding tutors/students - self-study by references/reading lists from UU - seminars - self-study by tutorials / programmed learning exercises prepared by someone else - exercises - writing papers - learning by doing / experimenting - Discipline divisions in UU - Libraries of UU - how to find information and where - tools for searching information - when you do research on the topic, contribute to the rest of the UU community - tools to help participating in UU - tools to create tutorials - tools for computer-supported collaboration in the UU community - tools for peer-reviewed publications - tools for retrieving, classigying and handling information from UU - tools for organizing material for presentation to UU students - Netiquette of UU - Legalities of UU: copyright, possible legal limits on topics, responsibilities Other documents - Generic brochure of information to distribute outside Usenet //Jyrki ----------------------------------------