Hi Anil, Apology for the tardy response :-(. Been running a little low on bandwidth these past two weeks -- not complaining, being busy means you are still wanted (but not necessarily needed) ;-)
At the end of every year, I think it's worthwhile exercise to think about priority projects. Anil, I agree that we should plan for increasing our online offering of free courses. Specifically, the OER Foundation is planning to extend and widen its community outreach and free training activities: - Early in the new year we will launch the "Open Content Licensing for Educators" course. We will model this on the ground breaking Learning4Content initiative aiming to become the world's largest free training programming in assisting educators with the complexities of copyright. With funding support from UNESCO and collaboration among the OpenCourseWare Consortium, Creative Commoners and WikiEducators -- I'm sure this will be a great success! The draft of one unit called "Creative Commons unplugged<http://wikieducator.org/Creative_Commons_unplugged/Introduction>has now been completed for review. This is one of five units<http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Outline_for_materials> planned for the eventual course. I'll be working over the holidays drafting the remaining units. All help is well received and folk can visit the planning schedule to monitor progress and help with the project: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Project_plan - In 2011, the OER Foundation will focus energies on mainstream adoption of OER in our education institutions around the world. We are hosting a strategic planning meeting in Dunedin on 23 February 2011 for a quantum shift project called the "OER for assessment and credit for students project<http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students>". I firmly believe that learning and learning materials should be free for all students around the world. This project aims to develop OER mapped to university and polytechnic credentials. Students will be free to learn from these courses with the option of assessment and credit for reduced fees. The OER Foundation is partnering with the University of Southern Queensland in Australia (building on Professor Jim Taylor's inspirational work around the concept), Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand and Athabasca University in Canada as anchor partners for the project. All universities, colleges and polytechnics of the world are free to join us<http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meetings>in this exciting venture. I'm hoping to get sponsorship to cover the costs of streaming this planning meeting for the world. So if you know of donors interesting in supporting free education for the world -- invite them to donate here: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Donate I predict that 2011 will be an amazing year for OER! I invite all WikiEducators to share their 2011 resolutions for making OER futures happen. Best wishes to all WikiEducators and their loved ones for the holidays. Cheers Wayne On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:26 AM, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Dr. Wayne and all other friends, > > As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more online > courses on a verity of subjects? I think the time has come! > > *HAPPY, PROSPEROUS AND ESSENTIALLY A VERY BUSY NEW YEAR TO THE CREATIVE WE > FAMILY!* > > -- > Warm regards > > Anil > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad > http://www.apletters.blogspot.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, 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 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]
