[WikiEducator] Some problem with Ooo
Am in a workshop at Mumbai University - wanted to use Ooo converter, but .. did not work. Any idea why? And when it will be set right? Savithri On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, The Obama administration's department of labour commitment to fund free learning materials is old news. However, what is interesting with the US Department of Labor's press release http://ht.ly/6F8EZ confirming the $500 million as the first installment of the $2 Billion 4-year investment in OER is the list of grantees by state and project description: http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/eta20111409fs.htm The resources developed under this investment, will add to the inventory of OER learning materials for reuse by the OER university network. The open OERu network model is not unlike knowledge -- it multiplies through consumption. Similarly the more institutions who join the OER Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) who are implementing the OER university -- the more successful these organisations will become. We are on the verge of achieving the landmark milestone of *10* founding anchor partners for OER*Ten*. Watch this space Wayne 5 Things you should know about the OER university network planhttp://wikieducator.org/images/7/7d/OERu.pdf -- 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 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh Wikiblog http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog -- 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 -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- 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] Some problem with Ooo
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 21:56, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com wrote: Am in a workshop at Mumbai University - wanted to use Ooo converter, but .. did not work. Any idea why? And when it will be set right? I've asked for it to be restarted. Hopefully it will be back tomorrow. Thanks for the report, Jim -- 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: US-India Higher Education Summit at Washington DC
The highlights were: The two sides endorsed the resolve of the stakeholders from academia, government, and industry to take forward the following areas of consensus arrived at during the Summit: 1. A continued expanded U.S.-India Higher Education Dialogue with representatives from government, academia, and business that would interact on a periodic basis to inform and underpin the Dialogue. 2. Support for the following goals: ---Promoting strategic institutional partnerships for further strengthening and expansion of collaboration in the priority areas of higher education, including science and engineering, social sciences, and humanities, and addressing societal challenges in areas such as cyber security, energy, environment, health and agriculture; ---Encouraging expansion and deepened collaboration in research and development in the above areas between academic institutions of the two countries through existing initiatives; ---Fostering partnerships in the areas of vocational education and skills enhancement to meet the needs of today’s world; ---Exploration of models for ‘educational institutions for the 21st Century’ (such as ‘meta’ universities); ---Further strengthening programs for student and faculty enrichment and exchange, and development of leadership in academia at all levels; ---Welcoming the involvement of the private sector in the two countries to support and deepen collaboration with the higher education community, faculty exchanges, skills development, and institutional partnerships. 3. India announced its intention to set up an India-U.S. higher education platform as a means to pursue these goals. 4. Strengthening educator enrichment and exchange programs (with the Government of India indicating its intention to sponsor initially up to 1,500 faculty and junior scholars to leading universities and research institutes in the United States) to promote development of human resources while also enhancing broader interaction between the two countries. The following views were also expressed: US model too expensive While Sibal made a strong case for American universities to go to India, Sam Pitroda, chair of the Indian government's policy think-tank the National Knowledge Commission, who has championed new forms of education delivery and expansion of the higher education system, argued that the US model of education was too expensive for the country Professor BB Bhattacharya, former vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and a professor of business environment at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur's Noida campus, agreed. US universities have private sources of funds, large endowments and charge high fees from students. If we want to provide education to the non-elite, especially the poor, this model would not work, said Bhattacharya. The Obama-Singh initiative has the potential to play an important role in shaping the 'innovation' and new central universities in terms of research capabilities and faculty training. But care should be taken [in adapting] the US way of functioning to the Indian context, he said. The summit, hosted by Georgetown University in Washington DC, was attended by more than 300 academics, business leaders and government officials from both countries. In a joint statement issued at the end of the one-day event on 13 October, the US and India agreed to hold a Higher Education Dialogue as an annual event alternating between the two countries. The dialogue should identify areas for mutually beneficial exchanges and provide a platform for intense and meaningful collaboration among academia, the private sector and government on both sides, the statement said. Priority areas for strengthening collaboration include science and engineering, social sciences and humanities, and addressing societal challenges in areas such as cyber security, energy, environment, health and agriculture. These are all areas that the US state department had already earmarked for broader international research collaboration, according to analysts. In light of all these : 1. OER Relevance needs to be mentioned in backdrop of the summit in the area of Collabrative staff development of India with US Universities If we wish to take up this cause how should we proceed. Wikieducator has the platform, US universities have the content which can be chosen customised and launched and Indian academicians can collabrate to build this up. Ravi Limaye -- 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] Some problem with Ooo
2011/10/16 Jim Tittsler j...@oerfoundation.org: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 22:11, Jim Tittsler j...@oerfoundation.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 21:56, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com wrote: Am in a workshop at Mumbai University - wanted to use Ooo converter, but .. did not work. Any idea why? And when it will be set right? I've asked for it to be restarted. Hopefully it will be back tomorrow. It is running again. Sorry for the inconvenience, Jim P.S. My continued thanks to the New Zealand Ministry of Education for their support of this feature. Technical or financial support from other ministries around the world is welcome. :-) +1 -- lm -- 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
