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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
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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
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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
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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
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