[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes
Well done Eric and all. I hope this will also lead to a higher level of collaboration across various WMF and WE communities (technical, knowledge resources, organisational, strategic, ...). Kim PS Maybe Libre Puro could also be improved and supported some time - http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License along with a cool new CC wrapper - draft: http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License_Draft_Creative_Commons_Deed Say Libre :-) - http://www.wikieducator.org/Say_Libre On May 27, 1:01 am, Erik Moeller eloque...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Wayne, for your personal note as well. It's a very big deal for us and we're quite excited about it finally happening. Hopefully we'll be able to issue guidelines soon for importing content from projects like WikiEducator into Wikimedia, and the opposite direction will become possible once we switch (by June 15 at the latest). :-) -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Wanted: Future trainers on “FOSS Bu siness Models for Africa” in East and Southern Africa
Hi all, Just in case you have not come across this already, or a reminder if you have, today (30 May) is the last day to apply: http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/call Do circulate to people you know who might be interested. Thanks Kim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Working group: OER Policy Briefing
Hi everyone, Teresa over at the WE Teacher Collaboration Forum list ( http://groups.google.co.nz/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum ) suggested that we should develop an OER Policy Briefing -- a concise document to inform and assist policy makers with decisions relating to OER. I find it hard to believe that no-one has tackled this yet -- but my admittedly cursory search did not find any OER policy briefings :-(. A couple of folk from the Teacher Collaboration Forum have put up their hands to help out. Apology for the cross posting. In the event that anyone on the main WE list wants to help out on this important task --- please add your names on the relevant wiki page. I've started adding a few thoughts and ideas over here: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Brief_for_policy_makers Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes
Hi Kim, Thanks for your note. I'm optimistic and confident that this will lead to a higher level of collaboration among free culture initiatives in the education sector -- hopefully wider than just WMF projects and the WE community :-). For example, WE has submitted a funding proposal to Hewlett for content interoperability between Connexions and Mediawiki installations. Atkins, Brown and Hammond warn against success disaster where, for instance, a teacher has access to hundreds of free courses in elementary calculus. The OER movement needs to think about incentives to promote access to fewer instances of the same course materials but offer more flexible ways for communities to reuse and remix content, develop support materials, customised activities etc. ( http://www.hewlett.org/download?guid=745fe08c-54de-102c-ae2b-0002b3e9a4de ) while recognising their unique community identity. Each of the WMF, WE and Connexions communities have their own character, unique strengths (and weaknesses) --- fostering interoperability and reuse among these projects is a step in the right direction. (Think of the different GNU/Linux distros each adding value in their own way.) The licensing interoperability has removed a significant barrier in achieving these goals :-) Cheers Wayne http://www.hewlett.org/download?guid=745fe08c-54de-102c-ae2b-0002b3e9a4de Well done Eric and all. I hope this will also lead to a higher level of collaboration across various WMF and WE communities (technical, knowledge resources, organisational, strategic, ...). Kim PS Maybe Libre Puro could also be improved and supported some time - http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License along with a cool new CC wrapper - draft: http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License_Draft_Creative_Commons_Deed Say Libre :-) - http://www.wikieducator.org/Say_Libre On May 27, 1:01 am, Erik Moeller eloque...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Wayne, for your personal note as well. It's a very big deal for us and we're quite excited about it finally happening. Hopefully we'll be able to issue guidelines soon for importing content from projects like WikiEducator into Wikimedia, and the opposite direction will become possible once we switch (by June 15 at the latest). :-) -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes
Eric,We love you all for this. Savithri 2009/5/30 Kim kctuc...@gmail.com Well done Eric and all. I hope this will also lead to a higher level of collaboration across various WMF and WE communities (technical, knowledge resources, organisational, strategic, ...). Kim PS Maybe Libre Puro could also be improved and supported some time - http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License along with a cool new CC wrapper - draft: http://www.wikieducator.org/Libre_License_Draft_Creative_Commons_Deed Say Libre :-) - http://www.wikieducator.org/Say_Libre On May 27, 1:01 am, Erik Moeller eloque...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Wayne, for your personal note as well. It's a very big deal for us and we're quite excited about it finally happening. Hopefully we'll be able to issue guidelines soon for importing content from projects like WikiEducator into Wikimedia, and the opposite direction will become possible once we switch (by June 15 at the latest). :-) -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
