Leo, I'm intrugued as to why you ask. I've been trying to get OCLC involved in the OE world forever. Considering we have so many duplications of (free) edu/research archives and only one webbed world, where OCLC members do most of the physical classifying, they would seem an influntial partner. I'll just mention http://orweblog.oclc.org/
But tell us, why OCLC? On Nov 18, 11:43 am, Wong Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > Tks Wayne for this , does this Connexions have anything to do with OCLC ? > > 2009/11/18 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > With generous funding support from the William and Flora Hewlett > > Foundation, the OER Foundation is pleased to announce that we are able to > > take OER interoperability and remix potential to new levels. > > > Collaborating with OER projects which subscribe to licenses which meet the > > requirements of the free cultural works definition, WE aim to provide > > educators with greater freedom of choice to mix and match the best of two > > OER worlds, namely "producer-consumer" models with more traditional work > > flow approaches and commons-based peer production. This is an exciting > > project to build import export capability between the Connexions and > > WikiEducator/Mediawiki platforms. > > > WE need your help in building better OER futures. > > > 1. Please visit the project planning node to find out more about the > > project:http://wikieducator.org/CNX-WE > > 2. WE extend an open invitation to all Connexions authors, WikiEducator > > authors, editors of the Wikimedia Foundation Projects to help us achieve > > success with this project. > > 3. WE will use the Connexions mailing list on Google Groups for our > > discussions -- Join the list if you're interested ( > > http://groups.google.co.nz/group/connexions-community) > > 4. Visit the mini SWOT analysis page on WikiEducator and help us > > understand the context and remix needs of educators and OER authors ( > > http://tinyurl.com/yakk4vm) > > 5. Consider joining our open planning team or list of active > > contributors (http://tinyurl.com/yed7erx) > > > Gee -- you gotta love open philanthropy! Let's make OER remix and > > interoperability futures happen for education. > > > 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 > > -- > Leo Wong > --------------------------------------http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/HELP > There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with > the real teacher and real Kids -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
