Hi everyone, Rory Mcgreal from Athabasca University has written a great piece for the Calgary Herald, Canada.
Rory proposes a workable solution for eliminating government waste, we'll aligned with what we are collectively trying to do. "The answer is simple, rather than buying and/ or renting content, we can either produce our own or buy the full copyright to materials ONCE. Or, even better, make effective use of public domain or free copyright materials. Today tens of thousands of free, high-quality courses or course modules are produced by learning institutions across Canada, in the U. S. and around the world. WWW sites such as WikiEducator, Connexions, Merlot and Curriki have growing collections of free educational content." You can read the short article here: http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Time+change+rules+textbooks/2118193/story.html Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
