OOPS

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OOPS!

• Confucius Opencourseware Idea!

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Who am I ?

• Founder and CEO of the Foundation of Fantasy
  Culture and Art (Fantasy Foundation)
• Translator of the Lord of the Rings and Starwars
• Member of Commission of TAnet Management
  ,Ministry of Education
• Consultant of Yuan Ze University
• Columnist of Chinatimes Weekly, PC Gamer, College
  Students(One of the biggest magazine for Chinese
  students,

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Award I got

• 2006 Alumnus of Excellence, National Central
  University(the youngest ever winner)
• Johnnie Walker - 2004 Keep Walking Award
  ltCorporationgt
• 2005 Presidential Culture Award Innovative Youth
  ltR.O.C. Governmentgt (the youngest ever winner)
• Star of Publication 2001 of BoKeLai Internet
  Bookstore (www.books.com.tw)
• Man of the Year of the Internet Game 2002,
  Computer and Internet News
• (Chongqing, China)

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OOPS

• An Unconventional Way to share knowledge!

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Unconventional Approach
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MIT Opencourseware

• 33 categories, over 1200 courses
• Johns Hopkins, Utah State University, Tokyo,
  Keio, Waseda
• How can it be localized ?
• With minimum resources
• "Knowledge is the most democratic source of
  power." Alvin Toffler
• Language Barrier
• The poorest region needs it most

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• Confucius, circa 551-479 BC

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How Were Doing it?

• Publishing process

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Status System

• Share the Process, share the Status
• Will never be Finalized

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Volunteers

• Everythings almost free, but still comes with
  high quality
• Over 43 of translation volunteers have master
  degree or above
• Over 17.5 of translation volunteers have PHD
  degree or above
• Volunteers come from 16 different countries
• Researchers, Engineers, Professors, etc

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Innovative way to promote.
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Efficient Dissemination

• Word of Mouse and Mouth
• You dont necessarily believe the media, but you
  do believe your friends
• 26.4 of OOPS volunteers join OOPS because of
  friends or their emails
• Strong Believer
• OOPS volunteers are all willing to do something
  to make their effort more meaningful
• STJU Team story

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Transcribtion Project

• Over 120 Bilingual Volunteers
• Oops.editme.com
• MIT has over 450 video lectures
• OOPS already transcribed 89, over 22 of them
• Subtitles Can be used by people around the world

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Current StatusAfter 900 days1950
Volunteers1119 courses adopted540 courses near
completion84 courses already finished
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Traffic and Usage
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Some reports on our work
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OOPS achievement

• JHSPH OCWs report on us
• Held over 100 seminars and speeches. Just get
  back from China and gave speech in Chinas top 10
  universities.

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OOPS achievement

• Launched OOPS in Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai,
  attracted over 100 media
• Signed Translation Affiliate Agreement with
  MITOCW on 2006

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What about you?Lucifer.chu_at_gmail.com