Hi Everyone, The two International Governmental Organisations (IGOs) responsible for promoting education for all (EFA) and learning for development have confirmed their attendance at the November face-to-face<http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/2011.11_OERu_meeting_participants#Confirmed_attendees>meeting of founding anchor partners of the OERu. Both UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) will be present at this landmark meeting.
A special word of thanks to COL for their help in promoting and spreading the word<http://www.col.org/progServ/panComm/virtualConferences/Pages/default.aspx>to encourage a wide participation of virtual participants throughout the Commonwealth at the inaugural OERu meeting<http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/2011.11_OERu_Anchor_Partner_Meeting>of anchor partners. The OER Tertiary Education Network will benefit tremendously from the advice, counsel and experience from these IGO's in designing and implementing more affordable and better quality learning futures for millions of learners worldwide. UNESCO coined the term "Open Educational Resources", is a contributing partner of of the Open Educational Quality Initiative and is leading numerous initiatives in policy advocacy and community support in the open education arena. The Commonwealth of Learning <http://www.col.org/Pages/default.aspx> is the first IGO to adopt an open licensing policy and leading a number of OER projects <http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx#col>including Open schools, policy advocacy and mainstreaming of OER in eLearning, and the Virtual University of Small States of the Commonwealth initiative. COL was also the founding home nurturing the establishment of the WikiEducator<http://www.col.org/resources/knowServices/Pages/wikieducator.aspx>community of more than 20,000 educators collaboration on OERs. Working together we can achieve more sustainable education futures for all learners worldwide! -- 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> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> -- 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]
