That is the issue world wide. Here are some of the issues that I see.

(a) We need to have the guts to say no sometimes. At least in the states, I feel that we would get better results if we tried to get more small liberal arts schools who have class sizes that range from 10-30. One hundred plus person classes do not work well with our model.

(b) We need to shoot for upper level classes. PSY 100 or ENG 101 should not be our target class. The students do not know yet how to write effectively in their subject area, for the most part, and have yet to do real research. 200 or 300 level classes would be easier to work with.

These two things cut down on the number of volunteers. Who wants to work with 100 freshman who do not comunicate with you no matter how hard you try and who have yet to learn how to produce a workable product.

--Guerillero

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Interesting thread!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors#The_future_of_our_program

This is the main challenge in my opinion for the second semester for
WEP in Brazil, multiply the number of ambassadors -  there is some
progress here in the pilot. To convince professors on the importance
and need of this program after showing successful cases seems easier
than to have enough campus ambassadors for the demand. A key step of
the project when we are thinking about expanding in any place.

Tom

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
Wikimedia Brasil
Wikimedia Foundation

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