OOPS電子報- 2008年四月
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【工友的話】
朱學恒
各位，四月對於OOPS來說是一個充滿了好消息的時間。
我們除了獲得了國際媒體華爾街日報的報導之外，也在香港舉辦了第一次針對當地學術界的OOPS介紹和說明，也獲得了一些不錯的迴響，未來很有可能可以繼續在香港推動更進一步的開放式課程計畫！
另外，這個月我們也多了一些新的演講翻譯，請各位務必撥空看看唷！
祝各位工作順利，課業帥氣成長！
Lucifer
【開放知識庫】
Barack Obama：A More Perfect Union
講者：
Barack Obama
◎ 內容簡介：
這是美國民主黨總統候選人歐巴馬（Barack Obama)在2008年3月18日於美國Philadelphia州所做的名為「A More Perfect Union」的演講。演講的背景在於由於歐巴馬平常做禮拜的教會牧師被人拍下在佈道時對白人極為仇視的種族主義言論，並且放在Youtube上面播放，因此造成極大的震撼！各界紛紛要求歐巴馬表態，而且民主黨兩大陣營也荒腔走板的面對媒體說出許多性別及種族的歧視言論，因此，歐巴馬為力挽狂瀾，選定在獨立宣言議定的 Philadelphia（費城）以美國獨立宣言為主題來進行破題演講，但實質上內文講的卻是美國的種族紛爭和未來的走向。
這部演講影片來自於Youtube，但未經翻譯。翻譯的版本是由徐聖俠所提供，簡體字幕版本由劉慕華所製作，繁體版本由朱學恒所編輯處理。
若有興趣觀看翻譯版本字幕者，請下載avi檔案，並將字幕檔案改為同一名稱，在同一檔案夾內播放即可。
內容全文網址：http://blogs.myoops.org/lucifer.php/2008/04/06/obama2
◎ 關於譯者：
徐聖俠(Lohan.bbs@ptt2.cc)，台大動物系畢，1980年生。
愛好中國武術，曾習練長拳、洪拳多年
現任職於民營企業
【媒體報導之一】
Free Online College Courses Are Proliferating
By JEREMY WAGSTAFF
《THE WALL STREET JOURNAL》
A revolution of sorts is sweeping education.
In the past few years, educational material, from handwritten lecture notes to whole courses, has been made available online, free for anyone who wants it. Backed by big-name universities in the U.S., China, Japan and Europe, the Open Education Resources movement is gaining ground, providing access to knowledge so that no one is "walled in by money, race and other issues," says Lucifer Chu, a 32-year-old Taiwanese citizen and among the thousands world-wide promoting the effort. He says he has used about half a million dollars from his translation of the "Lord of the Rings" novels into Chinese to translate engineering, math and other educational material, also from English into Chinese.
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完整報導內容網址：http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120664000282069051.html
中文版
教育為公 文化共用
一場革命正在席捲教育界。
從手抄課堂筆記到教程的各種教學資料近些年都已亮相互聯網，向所有需要的人免費提供。在美國、中國、日本和歐洲各國知名大學的推動下，開放教育資源行動正在逐漸發展壯大。它修建起通往知識大廈的橋樑，為的是不讓一個人“因為金錢、種族等問題被拒之門外，”32歲的臺灣人朱學恒(Lucifer Chu)如是說。朱學恒是全球數千名這場運動的推動者之一。他已將翻譯《指環王》(Lord of the Rings)系列小說賺得的大約50萬美元投入到工程學、數學和其他教學材料的英譯中翻譯中去。
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完整報導內容網址：http://chinese.wsj.com/gb/20080401/fea134909.asp?source=insidetoday
【媒體報導之二】
Fantasy translator helps others live their dreams
《南華早報》
Lucifer Chu has spent most of his Lord of the Rings earnings
– but not on luxuries or the highlife, writes Mimi Lau
Taiwan’s Lucifer Chu Hsueh-heng earned US$1million translating JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy into traditional Chinese at age 27 – and ended up nearly broke five years later.
The self-proclaimed computer geek could have used the money to buy the sports car of his dreams or a flat filled with hi-tech gadgets, but instead he spent it helping to give Chinese-speaking students access to foreign academic courses.
Addressing educators and businessmen from the internet industry at City University last week, Chu, 32, explained how he spent most of his fortune setting up a foundation to encourage youngsters to create Chinese fantasy literature and recruiting 2,400 online volunteers to translate more than 1,800 academic courses offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“I can only do something I’m very good at,” said the Taipei-based author of three books and translator of more than 32 fantasy novels, including the Star Wars Thrawn trilogy. “I’m good at translation and I know a lot about the internet. So I combined the two things with my own money to come up with a new idea.”
After struggling to complete an electrical engineering degree at Taiwan’s National Central University in 1998 and two years of national service, Chu joined an international public relations firm. But he quit after only seven months because he realised it was important for him to follow his passion – fantasy novels.
With 23 translated fantasy novels then under his belt, Chu came across the first Chinese version of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which had sold only about 3,000 copies in Taiwan. He offered to retranslate the trilogy and The Hobbit without charging the publisher unless more than 10,000 copies were sold.
He was given just six months to translate 1.2 million words, and another two to proofread them. Chu said that to translate one of the world’s greatest fantasy classics into traditional Chinese at such speed required an extreme routine. “That was the most painful time in my life,” he said. “Even worse than being in the army.” He practically locked himself up in a small bedroom for 10 hours a day, seven days a week, with a goal to translate 30 pages a day. At the end of six months, he had lost 20kg.
Chu said that since his second year at university he had managed to earn up to HK$75,000 a year writing manuals and magazine reviews for computer games, as well as articles about fantasy literature. But that all changed with the publication of his translations of Tolkien’s masterpiece just two weeks before Peter Jackson’s Oscarwinning film of the first instalment hit the big screens.
Almost 800,000 copies were sold, and Chu collected his first US$1million from royalties at the age of 27.
“It was never the money or fame that kept me going though,” he said. “The process was extremely painful but it was self-driven. I would have given up halfway if it wasn’t. I can’t do things right if I don’t have a passion for them.”
Scoring 140 on an IQ test at the age of 10, Chu said he was so addicted to computer games that he picked up his knowledge of English following characters’ dialogues. He published a book in 2002 explaining how he had learned all the English he needed simply from playing computer games.
And it was this focus on the educational benefits of fantasy literature and computers that cost him most of what was left of his newly acquired fortune after the taxman had taken his substantial share.
First he set up the Foundation of Fantasy Culture and Arts to enthuse young people in the art form. “One day, maybe those young kids out there will be able to write their own fantasy novels and sell them in the western market and touch the world just like the Harry Potter stories did,” Chu said.
He then spent US$450,000 setting up the Opensource Opencourse Prototype System (Oops) translation scheme after learning MIT was sharing its academic courses online free in a project called MIT OpenCourseWare.
The Oops project is an attempt to translate MIT’s entire free online curriculum from English into Chinese to make it available to more than 1.3 billion Chinese speakers worldwide.
Starting with just two volunteers, Chu recruited 2,400 online translators over the past four years, 65 per cent of them on the mainland. Together, they have translated about 15 per cent of the 1,800 course materials, exams, lecture notes, problem sets and other resources prepared by some of the best educators.
Free online course material has become a trend since MIT’s move in 2002, even though studying the material does not lead to an MIT degree or allow access to the faculties. The move to liberate curriculum has since been followed by other universities, including Japan’s Waseda University, the University of Tokyo in 2004 and Yale University last year.
Chu said accessing translated material saved the reader a lot of time: “I can finish reading an English Harry Potter novel in five to seven days but I can finish a Chinese version in just one afternoon ... we can save those extra days to do something else.
“The English level of Japanese people is generally quite poor but their technology is very advanced. It is because they have one of the biggest translation industries in the world so they can obtain every single piece of knowledge easily in Japanese. They can then dedicate the time saved to innovative research. That’s what I call a competitive edge,” he said.
Oops has only six full-time staff – three editors, a web engineer and two administrators – to support the 2,400 volunteers. Chu says he has only met about 500 of the translators. “
All of our volunteers are experts in their own fields. I certainly could not afford to hire them,” Chu said, adding that his role was co-ordinator. “They are not following me; they are following the idea behind the project to share knowledge online.”
Chu said payback for the work was measured in satisfaction.
“Spending on personal desires will only make me happy, but what I’m doing now benefits all Chinese self-learners out there,” he said. “Isn’t that more logical? My return can’t be measured in terms of money.”
Oops’ website – www.myoops.org – had more than 1.8 million registered users last year. As of December there were about four million hits on the site from Taiwan, 2.7 million from the mainland and 212,117 from Hong Kong.
【媒體報導之三】
翻譯解放知識好學華人得益
《魔戒》譯者出錢出力 名牌學府課程譯中文
明報記者 彭碧珊
《明報》
哈佛大學今年是有史以來最難入的一年，取錄率只有7.1%。吃了閉門羹？不打緊，你可另覓學習途徑，一樣可以「入讀」世界名牌學府課程。「開放式課程計劃」(簡稱OOPS)是由來自台灣的《魔戒》譯者朱學恒建立的網路翻譯課程平台，正招募各國義工，逐一翻譯哈佛、劍橋、麻省理工大學等名牌學府的課程，誓在學術界展開一場革命，令眾多被語言或經濟條件所限的人能「上大學」。
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完整報導內容網址：http://www.mingpaotor.com/htm/News/20080410/wda.htm
【開放式課程翻譯進度】
OOPS的麻省理工學院開放式課程已經與MIT同步到1100門了，並且即將完成今年第二次的同步，歡迎各位朋友們趕快上線認養自己專長的課程。
開放式課程計畫進度中能夠不斷地向前邁進，要感謝所有義工們的奉獻，
讓我們再接再厲，繼續努力！
翻譯進度∼
1. 全部翻譯並審校完成，共47門。
2. 全部翻譯完成，共156門。
3. 第二層部分翻譯完成，共7門。
4. 第一層翻譯並審校完成，第二層翻譯中，共77門。
5. 第一層翻譯完成，共638門。
◎認養新課程請連結至下列網址：
http://sys.myoops.org/
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