Hi Everyone*, Summary of the open planning meeting to establish an OER university held in Dunedin, 23 February, 2011 now posted. *
Phil Ker, Chief Executive Officer of Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand remarked that the OERU "is history in the making". Professor Jim Taylor, from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia suggested that "OER is the next big thing in tertiary education". The OER university concept is off to a good start. If you missed the live stream of the open planning meeting, we have posted a summary including video highlights here: http://wikieducator.org/OERU_meeting_summary Recordings of all the sessions are available on Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/user/OER-University/videos If you would like to continue participating in planning free learning for all students worldwide through the OER university initiative -- be sure that you have signed up for the OER university Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/oer-university All post secondary institutions are welcome to join the OER university as an anchor partner. Please contact [email protected] for more information. 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> 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]
