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 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
