An IPID – Reconsidering Development Proposal (LA and OCW)
September 16, 2010
Proposal:
IPID will promote web 2.0 technologies with the goal of offering quality educational material over the internet to the global community. Through improvements in technology and the increased access to information around the globe, it is possible for individuals today to access a large quantity of educational material over the internet. IPID hopes to support this movement by not only openly publishing the journal but also by offering information about interdisciplinary development research in various formats, including audio-visual and recording of forums and speeches.
Following in the footsteps of the philosophy in which the University of Minnesota was founded and its greater purpose of not only promoting the search of knowledge within its student-body but also throughout the greater Minnesota, the United States and the World. IPID believes that information should be increasingly made available for free to the general public.
As one of the greatest tools to increase the quality of life in foreign countries, through the promoting of free online material in the form of video-recording and hopefully in the future, OpenCourseWare, IPID hopes to help students worldwide to obtain access to some of the greatest minds and their ideas. Serving as a way to promote critical thinking and diverse opinions, educational videos do not hope to replace traditional education but only to enhance it. A future objective of IPID may include the promotion of educational videos and OpenCourseWare in a variety of languages or subtitles.
This year, IPID will record a number of lectures it will sponsor with a focus in Latin America and urbanization in developing countries. The rapid urbanization of Latin America and other areas of the world facilitated a resource and management crisis as the demographics of various states had to deal with an increasing number of individuals rapidly migrating to the cities in search of a job or a better standard of living at a rate that was difficult to administer.
IPID will record the lectures given by the scholars, academics and guest speakers that it will sponsor through its funding during the 2011-2012 year.
Functioning with limited resources and facing obstacles such as a rapidly growing population, it is within our social responsibility to increase access to education and improve the quality of education around the globe. In addition, we should provide individuals with the tools to help themselves.
