Re: [WikiEducator] UNESCO social networking platform for the OER community -- Worth joining
A social networking platform for OER community discussions is a great idea. I've visited the site. Is there any Sign up link? On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, UNESCO have established a social networking platform for OER community discussions with particular emphasis on building policy for sustainable OER futures. I must compliment Abel Caine and the team at the UNESCO's Communication and Information sector because: - This fills an important gap in the burgeoning field of OER -- namely focused international discussions on policy development for open education. - UNESCO have listened to the feedback and comments from many OER practitioners around the world for a web-based environment for these open discussions - preferably a list which remains open and not closed down after each scheduled discussion. - Running the platform using the popular open source elgghttp://www.elgg.org/environement. I understand that UNESCO have contributed code improvements back to the community. Well done UNESCO! I encourage all WikiEducators with an interest in helping form and co-design international policy around OERs to join the community. See: http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer/ I look forward to sharing ideas with international colleagues via this great community resource. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] UNESCO social networking platform for the OER community -- Worth joining
Wayne This is the tool I was waiting for , thanks Teresa On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com mailto:mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, UNESCO have established a social networking platform for OER community discussions with particular emphasis on building policy for sustainable OER futures. I must compliment Abel Caine and the team at the UNESCO's Communication and Information sector because: * This fills an important gap in the burgeoning field of OER -- namely focused international discussions on policy development for open education. * UNESCO have listened to the feedback and comments from many OER practitioners around the world for a web-based environment for these open discussions - preferably a list which remains open and not closed down after each scheduled discussion. * Running the platform using the popular open source elgg http://www.elgg.org/ environement. I understand that UNESCO have contributed code improvements back to the community. Well done UNESCO! I encourage all WikiEducators with an interest in helping form and co-design international policy around OERs to join the community. See: http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/groups/14358/open-educational-resources-oer/ I look forward to sharing ideas with international colleagues via this great community resource. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator http://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.ca http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org 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 mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com http://www.apletters.blogspot.com/ -- 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 -- 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] OERF / UNESCO Press release: Towards an OER university - Free learning for all students worldwide
Hi everyone, Please circulate: Joint OER Foundation / UNESCO press release. http://wikieducator.org/Towards_an_OER_university:_Free_learning_for_all_students_worldwide The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation is to host a strategic international meetinghttp://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meeting_Agenda_-_23_Feb_2011in Dunedin on 23 February, to commence planning for the provision of free learning to all students worldwidehttp://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students. Support from the United Nations Science and Education Organisation (UNESCO) to stream the meeting on the internet will allow the participation of education leaders and interested persons from around the globe. Join the meetinghttp://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meetings#Virtual_participantsas a virtual participant and help make OER futures happen. *Read more. http://wikieducator.org/Towards_an_OER_university:_Free_learning_for_all_students_worldwide * (If you blog about this important meeting -- please use the #OERU tag). 2011 will be a quantum shift year for the mainstream adoption of OER. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Draft agenda for OER university planning meeting posted for comment
just registered my name , as i am from china , and working with a college in china , wonder a few things ,for oer courses , the applicablilty here in china , maybe others have similar questions pls share - the informal students can it mean by students from a formal university ? or have to be totally Adult students ? - if any of international university would like to offer courses in a different country , ie a chinese students can get credits or recognized , what are the difficulities would be ? - vice versa , if any of international students would like to get a degree or diploma from other university , why would him or her choose on line learning except the cost maybe lower ? - we have universities who will come to china to give us yearly quality assurance , how this can be done online to become more process assessment ? - what are the advantages for countries like china india , those third-world countries to partipate and voice out ? sorry for those questions may sound not professtional ,but actually the practical questions we face . tks 2011/2/1 gene loeb genel...@gmail.com Thanks for the reference. It was helpful in multiple ways. Sorry I work aa bit slower-comes with age, but am receptive to ideas on what to focus on. I am a retired college professor experienced in alternative education programs as well as traditional, observing the ever ongoing new concepts and materials. Sorry to be so long winded. Gene On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer David I will add this to the list of resources for the meeting. I agree, and suspect that there are many lessons and policy protocol examples we can remix from the Prior Learning and Assessment Recognition (PLAR) experiences for OER futures. It is serendipitous that you should mention this, as we speak Athabasca University is planning an international comparative study of policy protocols relating to PLAR to identify reuse potential for the OER university concept. Gut feel tells, me that we have two challenges to overcome -- I don't think that classical PLAR approaches will scale well (for example, assessment of portfolios is time intensive for both learners and assessors.) and I think that we can engineer more cost effective ways of doing this. But its still early days. Lot's of thinking and reflection needed. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:40 PM, David Wiley david.wi...@gmail.comwrote: The latest issue of IRRODL is dedicated to Prior Learning Assessments, and may contain information useful to this discussion. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl David On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, We've posted the draft agenda for the open planning meeting for the OER for assessment and credit for students project. See: http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meeting_Agenda_-_23_Feb_2011 Please post your ideas, suggestions and feedback on the draft agenda on the corresponding talk page: http://wikieducator.org/Talk:OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meeting_Agenda_-_23_Feb_2011 The review team comprising anchor partners and meeting sponsors will consider all submissions for the meeting. Let's build the OER university together. Cheers Wayne Register your participation in this open planning meeting here: http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meetings -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter | identi.ca -- 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 -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Draft agenda for OER university planning meeting posted for comment
Hi Leo, Good questions. The purpose of the planning meeting is to identify the questions we need to be asking and to start developing a high level logic model for implementation. The diagram on the OER universityhttp://wikieducator.org/OER_university#A_logic_model_for_the_OER_universitypage provides an overview of the main components (initatives) that we will need to consider. Initial answers to your questions (and I'm sure these will refine over time.) - Informal students refer to students who participate in online courses as non-credit students -- in other words they have not formerly enrolled for a course at any given institution. Therefore, these formal registered students may choose or elect to participate in some of the OER courses (due to timetable clashes or courses which are not offered by their host institution.) - We are very serious about designing the OER university concept (a virtual collaboration of institutions) to provide credible credentials. These will need to map to existing qualifications offered by participating institutions. - You are right, cross-border articulation of qualifications is complex and one of the areas we need to resolve in collaboration with national qualifications authorities and credentialising agencies. - To be honest, I not sure how credentialisation would work in China (and many other countries for that matter) because I'm not an expert in international credentialisation -- this is why it is so important for representatives from all countries to join in and help with the design and development of the logic model for an OER university. We also invite national qualifications authorities to join in the planning. So for example, I believe that the National Qualification's Authority of Samoa will be joining in the meeting remotely from a streamed site. To cite Professor Jim Taylor from the University of Southern Queensland in Australia: *The OER for assessment and credit for students project aims to create a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional models through effective collaboration networks. * The OER university concept aims to make education more affordable, more accessible and more efficient through collaboration, OER and the open web. It is conceivable that we can provide free learning for all students worldwide with pathways to obtain credible qualifications. This purpose of the open planning meeting -- to bring together the knowledge and expertise to achieve these futures. We look forward to your participation in the meeting. Members of the list can find more information from the links posted in the press release: http://wikieducator.org/Towards_an_OER_university:_Free_learning_for_all_students_worldwide Cheers Wayne On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: just registered my name , as i am from china , and working with a college in china , wonder a few things ,for oer courses , the applicablilty here in china , maybe others have similar questions pls share - the informal students can it mean by students from a formal university ? or have to be totally Adult students ? - if any of international university would like to offer courses in a different country , ie a chinese students can get credits or recognized , what are the difficulities would be ? - vice versa , if any of international students would like to get a degree or diploma from other university , why would him or her choose on line learning except the cost maybe lower ? - we have universities who will come to china to give us yearly quality assurance , how this can be done online to become more process assessment ? - what are the advantages for countries like china india , those third-world countries to partipate and voice out ? sorry for those questions may sound not professtional ,but actually the practical questions we face . tks 2011/2/1 gene loeb genel...@gmail.com Thanks for the reference. It was helpful in multiple ways. Sorry I work aa bit slower-comes with age, but am receptive to ideas on what to focus on. I am a retired college professor experienced in alternative education programs as well as traditional, observing the ever ongoing new concepts and materials. Sorry to be so long winded. Gene On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer David I will add this to the list of resources for the meeting. I agree, and suspect that there are many lessons and policy protocol examples we can remix from the Prior Learning and Assessment Recognition (PLAR) experiences for OER futures. It is serendipitous that you should mention this, as we speak Athabasca University is planning an international comparative study of policy protocols relating to PLAR to identify reuse potential for the OER university concept. Gut feel tells, me
