Greetings to all PEOI volunteers:
The big news this month is that PEOI has changed its name as you may observe on PEOI’s home page. PEOI’s name is now “Professional Education, Testing and Certification Organization International”. This change is necessary to reflect more correctly PEOI’s mission and what PEOI wants to do. Dispensing knowledge is good, but verifying knowledge acquisition (i.e. testing) is even more important. The new name also places PEOI in category all by itself, and separate from all the other open education websites that do not offer testing and certification. The acronym PEOI will be retained.
Importing new courses will now be accelerated, in particular from Flat World Knowledge. For instance, PEOI’s course in “Organizational Behavior” had been languishing for several years unfinished. Now Sarita Karanth (faculty #6196) will be taking over the subject by working on an imported version of it. There are several dozens more courses that can be imported from Flat World Knowldge and many other websites, and you are invited to suggest courses to import, that you would like to develop. The beauty of importing courses is that most of the content is practically all written. In many cases, the imported courses have been used in numerous universities, and the authors have benefited from advice from professors who used the courses in their teaching. Nevertheless, the content must be edited, and sometimes restructured to fit PEOI’s online course design specification which is aligned to SCORM online course standards. Specifically, course pages must focus on just one topic to facilitate retention, and that means that lengthy chapters or sections need to be divided.
All these courses with their ready content can be made rapidly available for translation. For instance, the first course on Electric Circuits imported from All About Circuits two months ago, has already been set up for translation into Chinese, which Muqiu Zhang (faculty #6192) has started. The course has also been set up for translation into other languages. With all the new courses, the volume of translation work is about to explode. I hope all you translators are ready for it.
Isn’t it great to have so much new work at PEOI: importing courses, restructuring them, writing test questions and translating? PEOI will need a lot more volunteers. If you know where and how to find them, please let me know.
Other new developments:
New courses started or taken over in June 2011:
– “Business Information Systems” by Benjamin Katongo (faculty #6187) in English
– “Organizational Behaviour” by Sarita Karanth (faculty #6196) in English
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:
21 new staff members in June
Haytham Alabuosi (staff #6207) from Iraq, Translator
Alison Brettle (staff #6192) from United Kingdom, Audio specialist
Pascal Corpet (staff #6141) from France, HTML specialist
Dulan Dhanapala (staff #6205) from Sri Lanka, Web designer
Adam Di Pardo (staff #6139) from Canada, Webmaster
anjali dixit (staff #6188) from India, Country representative
Ian Dunne (staff #6138) from United States, Audio specialist
Ma Abegail Fusilero (staff #6200) from Philippines, Instructor
Maya Garcia (staff #6198) from Spain, Illustrator
Erika Harimoto (staff #6199) from Japan, HTML specialist
Dani Hart (staff #6202) from United States, Author
Glenda Johnson Elam (staff #6203) from United States, Proofreader
Thuy Le (staff #6140) from Viet Nam, Illustrator
SALHA LEMA (staff #6189) from United Republic of Tanzania, HTML specialist
Sonia Longo (staff #6193) from Australia, Audio specialist
Chantal Magracia (staff #6206) from Canada, Audio specialist
Wycliff Omoro (staff #6196) from Kenya, Audio specialist
DOROTHY SCHULMAN (staff #6197) from United States, Instructor
Ashley Sylvester (staff #6204) from Trinidad and Tobago, HTML specialist
Lorraine Taylor (staff #6194) from United States, Review questions writer
Nouri Zarrugh (staff #6191) from United States, Illustrator
53 new faculty members in June
Nagehan Akbul?ut (faculty #6198) from Turkey, Translator
Rugina Ali (faculty #6174) from United Kingdom, Author
Ophélie Alix (faculty #6208) from France, Author
Dania Alkhani (faculty #6182) from Canada, Author
Ravjeet Atwal (faculty #6206) from India, Author
Iulia Bala? (faculty #6210) from Romania, Author
Ruben Bieker (faculty #6181) from Germany, Author
James Buckingham (faculty #6225) from Canada, Instructor
Zhe Cai (faculty #6175) from China, Translator
Shamik Chakraborty (faculty #6204) from India, Professor
Shanti Dahal (faculty #6211) from India, Concepts summary writer
Lidiya Dergacheva (faculty #6180) from United States, Audio specialist
Simona Deyalsingh (faculty #6202) from Trinidad and Tobago, Reference research specialist
Andre Dickson (faculty #6199) from Trinidad and Tobago, Concepts summary writer
Anne Marie Doherty (faculty #6194) from Ireland, Author
Nesma Gad (faculty #6212) from Egypt, Translator
Vaibhav Garg (faculty #6178) from India, Author
Eduard Grigoryan (faculty #6193) from Armenia, Translator
Linda Ariani Gunawan (faculty #6220) from Indonesia, Reference research specialist
DUGGINENI HARI BABU (faculty #6207) from India, Author
Mai Hua (faculty #6230) from Viet Nam, Translator
Jianing Jin (faculty #6172) from China, Translator
stanley jones (faculty #6216) from India, Import course
Ramya Julian (faculty #6191) from India, Author
Sarita Karanth (faculty #6196) from Australia, Author
Benjamin Katongo (faculty #6187) from Zambia, Author
Dina Kharismawati (faculty #6209) from Indonesia, Translator
Lamis Khoury (faculty #6189) from Lebanon, Translator
Moosa Manik (faculty #6229) from Maldives, Instructor
Shivani Mehta (faculty #6223) from India, Instructor
shabnam milani (faculty #6203) from Iran, Illustrator
Roopa Mishra (faculty #6226) from India, Author
Jessica Narula (faculty #6190) from India, Audio specialist
Abdullah Nasser (faculty #6185) from Iraq, Author
Thuy Nguyen (faculty #6186) from Viet Nam, Translator
João Paixão (faculty #6217) from Brazil, Translator
Isliani Perez (faculty #6183) from Venezuela, Translator
Binh Phan (faculty #6179) from Viet Nam, Translator
DEEPTH PILAKEEZHU (faculty #6227) from India, Illustrator
Mansoureh Rad (faculty #6214) from Iran, Author
Md Montsir Rahman (faculty #6215) from Bangladesh, Class discussion moderator
Shen Rui (faculty #6213) from China, Translator
Rachel Shirley (faculty #6197) from United Kingdom, Concepts summary writer
Maja Srndic (faculty #6218) from United States, Reference research specialist
Peter Strohmeier (faculty #6219) from Germany, Author
Pinisetti Swetha (faculty #6177) from India, Author
Michelle Tang (faculty #6184) from Singapore, Translator
carlos villanueva (faculty #6195) from Spain, Professor
Sabita Vruthan (faculty #6222) from India, Author
nikhil Wali (faculty #6205) from India, Internet search specialist
Maria Wijaya (faculty #6176) from Indonesia, Translator
Sun Xiangqing (faculty #6200) from China, Translator
Muqiu Zhang (faculty #6192) from China, Translator
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 2011, 83 new faculty and staff volunteers joined PEOI. This brings to 4,870 the number of PEOI’s registered volunteers in June 2011; they come from 150 countries. By comparison, there were 103 new volunteers registered in June of previous year.
In June 2011, 93 new students registered at PEOI, compared to unusual 151 a year ago. This brings the total student registrations to 7,904 in June 2011. They come from 202 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 2011:
– punam kumar (faculty #3036) contributed to chapter
17 of Introduction to botany in English
– Dennis Dantic (faculty #5159) contributed to chapter
1 of Introduction to Public Health in English
– Roberto Fray da Silva (faculty #5787) contributed to
chapter 1 of Small Business and Entrepreneureship in English
– Khanh Lam (faculty #5835) translated chapter 12 of
Accounting I in Vietnamese
– Khanh Lam (faculty #5835) translated chapters 2 5 and
13 of Accounting II in Vietnamese
– Diana Crispin Cruz (faculty #5876) contributed to
section ch5z of Foundations of Public Health in English
– Maria Brenner-Kelly (faculty #5963) translated sections
ch5a ch5b ch5c ch5d ch5e ch5j and ch5z of
Financial analysis in Portuguese
– ASLI GUNAYDIN CALMA (faculty #5987) translated chapter
5 of Macroeconomics in Turkish
– Nancy Paz (faculty #6007) contributed to chapters 3
and 4 of Accounting II in English
– Nguyen Nguyen (faculty #6016) translated general text
chapters 3 and 4 in Vietnamese
– Nguyen Nguyen (faculty #6016) translated sections ch8b
ch10f and ch12e of Financial Analysis in Vietnamese
– Julien Maréchal (faculty #6109) contributed to sections
ch2z ch3z ch4b1 ch4c and ch4z of Fundamentals of botany in English
– muhammad rao (faculty #6136) contributed to sections
ch2z ch3z ch4b1 ch4c and ch4z in English
– Rafaela Ambrosio (faculty #6145) contributed to general
text in English
– Rafaela Ambrosio (faculty #6145) translated chapter
15 of Microeconomics in Portuguese
– MENGXI YU (faculty #6160) contributed to sections ch5x
and ch6z of Elementary statistics in English
– Edith Eddy Castela (faculty #6163) contributed to
chapter 12 of ESL level 1 in English
– Luiz Fernando Noronha Bogado (faculty #6165) contributed
to chapter 12 in English
– Luiz Fernando Noronha Bogado (faculty #6165) contributed
to chapters 1 2 3 4 and 5 of Accounting I in English
– Luiz Fernando Noronha Bogado (faculty #6165) contributed
to chapters 1 and 5 of Accounting II in English
– Luiz Fernando Noronha Bogado (faculty #6165) contributed
to sections ch1z and ch5z of Elementary Physics I old in English
– Luiz Fernando Noronha Bogado (faculty #6165) translated
chapters 4 5 12 and 14 of Accounting II in Portuguese
– Margaret Bell (faculty #6166) contributed to chapters
4 5 12 and 14 in English
– Ngan Dang Tran (faculty #6169) translated chapter 5
of Accounting I in Vietnamese
– Leung Wan Ting (faculty #6170) contributed to chapter
5 in English
– Jianing Jin (faculty #6172) contributed to general
text in English
– Jianing Jin (faculty #6172) translated chapter 3 of
Programming in C in Chinese Simplified
– Zhe Cai (faculty #6175) contributed to chapter 3
in English
– Maria Wijaya (faculty #6176) contributed to general
text in English
– Pinisetti Swetha (faculty #6177) contributed to general
text in English
– Vaibhav Garg (faculty #6178) contributed to general
text in English
– Binh Phan (faculty #6179) translated chapters 8 and
10 of Accounting I in Vietnamese
– Binh Phan (faculty #6179) translated chapter 1 of Accounting
II in Vietnamese
– Lidiya Dergacheva (faculty #6180) contributed to chapter
1 in English
– Isliani Perez (faculty #6183) contributed to general
text in English
– Isliani Perez (faculty #6183) translated chapters
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 and 15 of Macroeconomia in Spanish
– Michelle Tang (faculty #6184) contributed to chapters
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 and 15 in English
– Michelle Tang (faculty #6184) translated chapter 0
of Accounting I in Chinese Simplified
– Abdullah Nasser (faculty #6185) contributed to chapter
0 in English
– Thuy Nguyen (faculty #6186) contributed to general
text in English
– Benjamin Katongo (faculty #6187) contributed to general
text in English
– Lamis Khoury (faculty #6189) contributed to general
text in English
– Lamis Khoury (faculty #6189) translated chapter 6 of
???????? ?????? in Arabic
– Jessica Narula (faculty #6190) contributed to chapter
6 in English
– Muqiu Zhang (faculty #6192) contributed to general
text in English
– Muqiu Zhang (faculty #6192) contributed to section
ch1a of Electrical Circuits 1 – DC in English
– Eduard Grigoryan (faculty #6193) contributed to section
ch1a in English
– Rachel Shirley (faculty #6197) contributed to sections
ch1z ch4b ch5z ch6a ch6b ch6z ch7a2 ch7b1 ch7b3 ch7c1
ch7z ch8a ch8d ch8z ch9z and ch20s of
Fundamentals of botany in English
– Nagehan Akbul?ut (faculty #6198) contributed to
sections ch1z ch4b ch5z ch6a ch6b ch6z ch7a2 ch7b1 ch7b3
ch7c1 ch7z ch8a ch8d ch8z ch9z and ch20s in English
– Andre Dickson (faculty #6199) contributed to general
text in English
– Sun Xiangqing (faculty #6200) contributed to general
text in English
– Simona Deyalsingh (faculty #6202) contributed to general
text in English
– Shamik Chakraborty (faculty #6204) contributed to general
text in English
– nikhil Wali (faculty #6205) contributed to general
text in English
– nikhil Wali (faculty #6205) contributed to chapter
1 of C++ and OOP programming in English
– Ravjeet Atwal (faculty #6206) contributed to chapter
1 in English
– Ravjeet Atwal (faculty #6206) contributed to section
ch8z of International Organizations in English
– DUGGINENI HARI BABU (faculty #6207) contributed to
section ch8z in English
– Ophélie Alix (faculty #6208) contributed to general
text in English
– Dina Kharismawati (faculty #6209) contributed to general
text in English
– Iulia Bala? (faculty #6210) contributed to general
text in English
– Shanti Dahal (faculty #6211) contributed to general
text in English
– Nesma Gad (faculty #6212) contributed to general text
in English
– Shen Rui (faculty #6213) contributed to general text
in English
– Mansoureh Rad (faculty #6214) contributed to general
text in English
– Md Montsir Rahman (faculty #6215) contributed to general
text in English
– stanley jones (faculty #6216) contributed to general
text in English
– João Paixão (faculty #6217) contributed to general
text in English
– João Paixão (faculty #6217) translated chapters 3 and
5 of Programming in C in Portuguese
– Maja Srndic (faculty #6218) contributed to chapters
3 and 5 in English
– Peter Strohmeier (faculty #6219) contributed to general
text in English
– Linda Ariani Gunawan (faculty #6220) contributed to
general text in English
– Shivani Mehta (faculty #6223) contributed to general
text in English
– Roopa Mishra (faculty #6226) contributed to general
text in English
– DEEPTH PILAKEEZHU (faculty #6227) contributed to general
text in English
– Ha Nguyen (faculty #5868) translated test questions
in chapter 2 of Accounting I in Vietnamese
– Ha Nguyen (faculty #5868) translated test questions
in chapter 1 of Accounting II in Vietnamese
– Linh Pham (faculty #5952) translated test questions
in chapters 5 and 6 of Microeconomics in Vietnamese
– Ahmed Ismael (faculty #6009) translated test questions
in chapters 6 and 7 of ????????? ?????? in Arabic
– ZHI YING (faculty #6010) translated test questions in
chapter 3 of Accounting II in Chinese Simplified
– Nguyen Nguyen (faculty #6016) translated test questions
in chapter 8 of Accounting II in Vietnamese
– Matheus Ricardo Uihara Zingarelli (faculty #6046) translated
test questions in chapter 1 of Programming in C in Portuguese
– Andrei Manole (faculty #6091) contributed test questions
in chapter 7 in Elementary statistics in English
– Ana Maria Ribeiro (faculty #6106) translated test questions
in chapter 4 of Macroeconomics in Portuguese
– Muyang Song (faculty #6137) translated test questions
in chapter 1 of Programming in C in Chinese Simplified
– Anderson Souza (faculty #6157) translated test questions
in chapter 8 of Accounting I in Portuguese
– Leung Wan Ting (faculty #6170) translated test questions
in chapter 8 of Microeconomics in Chinese Simplified
– Jianing Jin (faculty #6172) translated test questions
in chapter 3 of Programming in C in Chinese Simplified
– Maria Wijaya (faculty #6176) translated test questions
in chapter 12 of Macroeconomics in Indonesian
– Isliani Perez (faculty #6183) translated test questions
in chapters 1 2 3 4 and 5 of Macroeconomia in Spanish
– Eduard Grigoryan (faculty #6193) translated test questions
in chapter 3 of ÁÓÃÀËÒÅÐÈß I in Russian
– Nagehan Akbul?ut (faculty #6198) translated test
questions in chapters 1 and 2 of Macroeconomics in Turkish
– Nancy Paz (faculty #6007) uploaded 1 image
for Accounting II in English
– Diana Grosu (faculty #6084) uploaded 1 images
for Fundamentals of marketing in English
– Edith Eddy Castela (faculty #6163) uploaded 8 images
– Bryan Griffin (staff #5127) contributed to section
ch23z of Fundamentals of Pharmacology in English
– Fung Lan Chow (staff #5199) contributed to sections
chem12 chem17 chem18 and chem19 of Chemistry I in English
– Jena Rush (staff #5265) contributed to sections ch1a
and ch1z of Introduction to Psychology in English
– Adam Di Pardo (staff #6139) contributed to sections
ch1a and ch1z in English
– Thuy Le (staff #6140) contributed to general text
in English
– Pascal Corpet (staff #6141) contributed to general
text in English
– Pascal Corpet (staff #6141) contributed to sections
ch2a ch2g ch2z and 2 of Beginning Italian I in English
– anjali dixit (staff #6188) contributed to sections
ch2a ch2g ch2z and 2 in English
– SALHA LEMA (staff #6189) contributed to general text
in English
– Nouri Zarrugh (staff #6191) contributed to chapter
5 of ESL level 1 in English
– Alison Brettle (staff #6192) contributed to chapter
5 in English
– Sonia Longo (staff #6193) contributed to general text
in English
– Lorraine Taylor (staff #6194) contributed to general
text in English
– Wycliff Omoro (staff #6196) contributed to general
text in English
– DOROTHY SCHULMAN (staff #6197) contributed to general
text in English
– Maya Garcia (staff #6198) translated chapter 1 of Electrical
Circuits 1 – DC in Spanish
– Ma Abegail Fusilero (staff #6200) contributed to chapter
1 in English
– Ma Abegail Fusilero (staff #6200) contributed to section
ch11b of ESL level 1 in English
– Dani Hart (staff #6202) contributed to section ch11b
in English
– Glenda Johnson Elam (staff #6203) contributed to general
text in English
– Chantal Magracia (staff #6206) contributed to general
text in English
– Fernanda Crancianinov Mota (staff #5290) translated
test questions in chapter 13 of Microeconomics in Portuguese
– Bryan Griffin (staff #5127) uploaded 1 image
for Fundamentals of Pharmacology in English
– Eliza Wandera (staff #6135) created course files
for PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY in English
– Pascal Corpet (staff #6141) uploaded 4 images
for Beginning Italian I in English
– Nouri Zarrugh (staff #6191) uploaded 6 images
for ESL level 1 in English
– Maya Garcia (staff #6198) uploaded 1 image
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
A new procedure, “List concepts”, has now been developed; it should make it easier to extract questions from concept summaries. Sentences are dissected to identify what elements deserve to be the subject of questions. Language experts are especially urged to join in testing and improving the procedure.
CONCLUDING REMARKS
It is clear that PEOI’s work in course development, translation and student advisement is not decreasing. There is more and more to be done. Please, it is not the time to give up on PEOI. Thanks for all you have done already, and please stay with PEOI.
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