PEOI July 2010 Newsletter

The only news of significance to report is PEOI’s import of a first MIT courseware (see below). Of course, importing open education content is the easy part: the real work of the imported MIT course will now start. First, the writing is rather off-the-cuff, and needs to be thoroughly edited. Then, assignments, reading lists, cases, summaries, review and test questions, must be added. Anyone in PEOI’s IT course development team interested in this work, make yourselves know.

Finally, PEOI’s 2009 Annual Report is still being written. It is therefore not too late for you to submit your photos or stories about your involvement at PEOI.

Other new developments:

New courses started or taken over in June 2010:
– “Astronomy” by Rapeti sashikanth  (faculty #5458) in English
– “Total Quality Management ” by Chong Aik  (faculty #5401) in English
– “Workplace Performance Management” by Chong Aik  (faculty #5401) in English
– “Fundamentals of marketing” by Sasmita Maurya (faculty #5462) in English
– “Problemes de sante potentiels relies aux radiations ionisantes” by Danielle Dery  (faculty #5473)  in French

New course imported in June 2010:
– “Software Engineering for Web Applications” imported by Zeina Shahla  (faculty #5344)

As in the past, this newsletter will cover
– presentation of new volunteers,
– review of statistics,
– major recent work completed,
– what PEOI is working on now.

NEW VOLUNTEERS WELCOME

We are all delighted to have the following new volunteers among us:

18 staff volunteers

Omowunmi Adenuga-Taiwo (staff #5076) from Nigeria, Internet search specialist
molano angela (staff #5083) from Colombia, Project manager
Bina Emanvel (staff #5073) from India, Promoter
Miguel Gaytan (staff #5064) from Mexico, Administrative assistant
Ana Goberna (staff #5075) from Spain, Translator
Amaya Gonzalez Lantero (staff #5068) from Spain, Translator
Linda Kagasi (staff #5065) from Kenya, Questions writer
phuoc hoa le (staff #5072) from Viet Nam, Translator
Sara Morales (staff #5077) from Honduras, Translator
Nestor Ngouambe (staff #5067) from Cameroon, Author
Minal Patel (staff #5082) from India, Administrative assistant
Ramesh Premaratne-Ganhariti (staff #5079) from Sri Lanka, Student adviser
Aanchal Saxena (staff #5081) from Canada, Promoter
Anastasia Skibina (staff #5069) from Russia, Translator
Vera Uboytseva (staff #5070) from Russia, Translator
Ksenia Vasianovich (staff #5078) from Ukraine, Translator
kobra zahedi (staff #5066) from Iran, Promoter
Albina Zakirova (staff #5080) from Russia, Translator

68 faculty volunteers

Muna Abadl (faculty #5428) from Yemen, Translator
Kailash Adhikari (faculty #5477) from Nepal, Author
Mirahmad Aliakbarov (faculty #5474) from Uzbekistan, Translator
DENISE ALVES DOS SANTOS (faculty #5424) from Brazil, Translator
Noorali Amarsi (faculty #5434) from Canada, Author
Shivani Arora (faculty #5451) from India, Author
Desiana Barianti (faculty #5423) from Indonesia, Translator
Adiya Belgibayeva (faculty #5440) from Kazakhstan, Translator
Lilia Bernede (faculty #5408) from France, Editor
Anne-Marine BOUBENNEC LENZOTTI (faculty #5417) from France,
Diana Chavez (faculty #5445) from Ecuador, Translator
Violaine COURBON (faculty #5459) from France, Translator
Danielle Dery (faculty #5473) from Canada, Author
David Du Pont (faculty #5464) from Belgium, Author
Azza ElBakry (faculty #5416) from Egypt, Author
Ana Fontoura (faculty #5455) from Brazil, Translator
Graeme Foster (faculty #5419) from United Kingdom, Instructor
Emilia Furuya (faculty #5437) from Canada, Translator
Jayeeta Ghorai (faculty #5431) from India, Author
Rose Gordon (faculty #5403) from United Kingdom, Promoter
Marina Gorlova (faculty #5481) from Russia, Translator
Rishani Gunaratne (faculty #5412) from Sri Lanka, Instructor
Sreedhara Harika (faculty #5482) from India, Author
Aadrita Hazarika (faculty #5450) from India, Instructor
Roger Hill (faculty #5435) from United Kingdom, Author
Qurat-ul-ain Iftikhar (faculty #5409) from Pakistan, Cases writer
Shambhu Jha (faculty #5433) from Nepal, Author
Shobhit Jindal (faculty #5448) from India, Author
Caroline Joseph SashiKumar (faculty #5411) from India, Author
Dinara Kakenova (faculty #5480) from Kazakhstan, Translator
Raghavendra Kulkarni (faculty #5467) from India, Concepts summary writer
Ameriga Lazzarini (faculty #5470) from Italy, Reference research specialist
Soomi Lee (faculty #5414) from Republic of Korea, Reference research specialist
Rui Liao (faculty #5415) from China, Author
Rosa Manoa – Maitava (faculty #5421) from Fiji, Student adviser
Monika Markova (faculty #5485) from Republic of Macedonia, Student adviser
Sasmita Maurya (faculty #5462) from India, Professor
Harinee Mosur Narasimhan (faculty #5418) from India, Author
Gilberto Nakamura (faculty #5484) from Brazil, Translator
Jayant Narayan (faculty #5468) from India, Questions writer
Anna Newbury (faculty #5438) from United Kingdom, Test questions writer
An Nguyen (faculty #5476) from Viet Nam, Translator
Paola Oliveira (faculty #5454) from Brazil, Translator
Rafael Oliveira (faculty #5471) from Brazil, Translator
Lidia Porto Martins (faculty #5429) from Brazil, Translator
Inês Prates (faculty #5447) from Portugal, Translator
SHREYAS RAJAN (faculty #5410) from India, Internet search specialist
Arosh Rathnayake (faculty #5427) from Sri Lanka, Cases writer
Nélia Ribeiro (faculty #5463) from Portugal, Translator
Reitan Ribeiro (faculty #5405) from Brazil, Country representative
BHARGAVI RISBUD (faculty #5432) from India, Author
lucie rousselot (faculty #5475) from France, Author
Adriana Ruiz (faculty #5442) from Mexico, Author
Ahmed saeed (faculty #5479) from Egypt, Instructor
Rapeti sashikanth (faculty #5458) from India, Reviewer
Amede Sequeira (faculty #5404) from Portugal, Translator
Narendra Singh Chauhan (faculty #5460) from India, Instructor
Virginia Steffens (faculty #5465) from United States, Instructor
Sarah Sumner (faculty #5444) from United Kingdom, Author
Oleg Teperchuk (faculty #5469) from Russia, Translator
Jason Thomas (faculty #5457) from Canada, Author
SHERYL VILLAROMAN (faculty #5425) from Philippines, Class discussion moderator
Jair Viveros (faculty #5461) from Brazil, Translator
Bhavinee Vyas (faculty #5443) from India, Editor
Ruwangi Welikala (faculty #5453) from Sri Lanka, Concepts summary writer
Kassahun Yimer Kebede (faculty #5426) from Ethiopia, Author
Delfina Zelaschi (faculty #5406) from Paraguay, Proofreader
Alem Zersenay (faculty #5422) from Canada, Author

If you have news about yourself that you would like to share with PEOI volunteer community, please, do not hesitate to let me know.

REVIEW OF STATISTICS

In June 2010, 103 new faculty and staff volunteers joined PEOI. This brings to 3,992 the number of PEOI’s registered volunteers in July
2010; they come from 149 countries.  By comparison, there were 69 new volunteers registered in June of previous year.

In June 2010, 152 new students registered at PEOI, compared to 87  year ago. This brings the total student registrations to 6,519 in July 2010. They come from 196 different countries.

You can see the break down of student statistics in “Statistics – students” part of the “Students” section. Likewise you can see the breakdown
of volunteers and  information about individual volunteers in “Statistics – volunteers” part of the “Projects” section.

MAJOR WORK RECENTLY COMPLETED

If you notice errors in any part of this or any other newsletter, please send me a message. The following is a listing of most of the work performed in June 2010:

– Sub Handi Madjiah (faculty #2475) translated chapter
8 of Accounting II in Indonesian
– punam kumar (faculty #3036) contributed to chapters
17 and 18 of Introduction to botany in English
– Maruf Kandakov (faculty #4193) contributed to chapters
17 and 18 in English
– Jeremy Ecle (faculty #5008) contributed to chapter
1 of Principles of Management in English
– Jeremy Ecle (faculty #5008) contributed to section
ch1z of Introduction to physics in English
– Beatriz Jacques (faculty #5138) contributed to sections
ch10b ch10c ch10d and ch10e of Human Physiology in English
– Zeina Shahla (faculty #5344) contributed to potentialcourses
in procedure text in English
– Claire Checroun (faculty #5370) contributed to chapter
3 of Introduction to botany in English
– Girija Goleria (faculty #5386) contributed to chapter
8 of Database Management System in English
– Chong Aik (faculty #5401) contributed to sections ch0
ch1a ch1x and ch1z of Total Quality Management in English
– Graeme Foster (faculty #5419) contributed to chapters
2 and 5 of UNIX Fundamentals in English
– Lidia Porto Martins (faculty #5429) translated chapter
3 of Mass communication – Introduction to journalism in Portuguese
– Emilia Furuya (faculty #5437) translated chapter 2
of Programming in C in Portuguese
– Bhavinee Vyas (faculty #5443) contributed to chapter
1 of Biology of Mammals in English
– Sarah Sumner (faculty #5444) contributed to sections
ch1a ch1b ch1d ch1z ch2z ch5a ch6a ch6b4 ch6c ch7a ch8a
ch9a and ch12a of Foundations of Public Health in English
– Ana Fontoura (faculty #5455) translated chapter 5 of
Mass communication – Introduction to journalism in Portuguese
– Jair Viveros (faculty #5461) translated chapter 12
of Macroeconomics in Portuguese
– Oleg Teperchuk (faculty #5469) translated general text
chapter 12 in Russian
– Marina Gorlova (faculty #5481) translated chapter 12
of ?À??? I in Russian
– Fran?se BRUNELLE (faculty #4227) translated test questions
in chapters 2 3 4 and 8 of ANALYSE FINANCIERE in French
– nalini asfaroyani (faculty #4784) translated test questions
in chapter 5 of Accounting I in Indonesian
– Anoman Daria (faculty #5031) translated test questions
in chapter 1 of PRECIS DE MACRO-ECONOMIE in French
– nour bouzid (faculty #5193) translated test questions
in chapter 4 of ANALYSE FINANCIERE in French
– Amede Sequeira (faculty #5404) translated test questions
in chapters 1 and 2 of Microeconomics in Portuguese
– Diana Chavez (faculty #5445) translated test questions
in chapters 1 and 10 of Contabilidad II in Spanish
– In?Prates (faculty #5447) translated test questions
in chapter 1 of Financial analysis in Portuguese
– punam kumar (faculty #3036) uploaded 8 images
for Introduction to botany in English
– Zeina Shahla (faculty #5344) proposed course
for Software Engineering for Web Applications in English
– [Dianing] Yudono (faculty #5355) proposed course
for Data Structure in English
– Jessica St. Amour (faculty #5369) proposed course
for Academic Writing in English
– Girija Goleria (faculty #5386) created course files
for Java Programming in English
– Chong Aik (faculty #5401) proposed course
for Total Quality Management in English
– Chong Aik (faculty #5401) proposed course
for Workplace Performance Management in English
– Michelle Bobala (staff #4986) contributed to sections
ch4a and ch5a of ESL level 1 in English
– Cate Dowman (staff #5041) contributed to section ch16x
of ESL level 1 in English
– kobra zahedi (staff #5066) translated chapters 1 2
and 5 of ???? ?????? 1 in Farsi
– kobra zahedi (staff #5066) translated chapters 1 and
2 of Microeconomics in Farsi
– Ramesh Premaratne-Ganhariti (staff #5079) contributed
to chapter 3 of Fundamental Statistics in English
– Ramesh Premaratne-Ganhariti (staff #5079) contributed
to sections ch1a ch1b ch1c ch1d ch1e ch1f ch1s ch2a ch2s
ch3s ch4s ch5s ch6a ch6b ch6c ch6s ch7b ch7c ch7q and ch7s
of Elementary statistics in English
– Celia Martinez Fernandez (staff #5061) translated test
questions in chapter 7 of Microeconomia in Spanish
– Michelle Bobala (staff #4986) upload several audio segments
for ESL level 1 in English

Thank you for all this good work. It should be mentioned that this work is only the one recorded when authors, editors, translators and other volunteers are online, make use of PEOI’s procedures, and their work is recorded. It is known that twice as much work is carried out offline, which is not recorded, and we thank those who put in all these efforts.

WHAT PEOI IS WORKING ON NOW

PEOI needs to be able to import PDF files. The procedure “Import pdf” is capable of converting most of the content of a PDF file into HTML, but not all. Anyone who has worked with PDF format specifications is urged to make him/herself known to me.

CONCLUDING REMARKS

PEOI is a community of volunteers. It exists only if everyone in that community is active. Please do not let others do your part.