A space-oriented career can and should provide students with skills that make them highly employable in a variety of jobs that are not directly related to space. Not everyone who explores space…
Space College Recommendations
Space College will seek to engage with corporate sponsors for the purpose of financial support of participants and activities, use of company facilities and personnel, donation of hardware, and employment opportunities. As…
Use of Virtual, Distributed Resources
While use of physical resources and activities in specific locations is required for what is envisioned as being the full Space College educational experience, a substantial portion will be done remotely using…
Open Source Approach to Collaboration and Education
Whenever possible Space College materials will be presented online for anyone to use free of charge. Creative commons and open source intellectual property classification will be used as much as possible. Donations…
Cost of Participation
In the United States, students often attend community colleges (2 year colleges) while still living at home. This cuts down on expenses and often provides an educational opportunity where none would otherwise…
Private Sector Involvement
There will be an overt mechanism within the core nature of Space College whereby the private sector is involved – not only as a potential sponsor but also as a potential benefactor….
Space Commerce and Space College
While careers in space exploration will certainly include employment in the private sector as managers, marketers, sales representatives, etc. Space College does not seek to become a business school per se. Nor…
Accreditation
Accreditation of educational institutions offers two benefits. First, it assures students and employers that the degree that an individual has meets a certain level of quality. Secondly, accreditation offers a certain level…
Diversity and Opportunity
In order to reach the greatest possible student body and develop the widest collection of skills, students and faculty must be from a diversity of backgrounds and locations. While starting out initially…
Making Space College A Truly Open Entity
All too often, efforts to promulgate the idea of a degree in fields related to space exploration remain within the NASA/aerospace company/collegiate circle. Efforts to truly reach out to unconventional communities including…
Open Data
Under the Obama Administration there has been a big push for making government-developed and sponsored data and datasets more widely available than was previously the case. The online focus of this effort…
Open Source Philosophy
“Open source” is a term most often associated with software. According to a Wikipedia description: “Open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public…