Dear friends, I hope the message from Abel Caine, UNESCO OER Programme, as added below, regarding the launch of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources Platform and UNESCO/COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education on Tuesday 1 Nov, will be of grater interest to most of you. The event will be streamed live. See details in Abel's message:
On Tuesday 1 Nov, Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO will be officiating the launch of: 1. The UNESCO Open Educational Resources Platform 2. The UNESCO/COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education The UNESCO *Open Educational Resources Platform* is a first-ever, innovative online Platform offering selected UNESCO publications as open educational resources allowing our global community of stakeholders to freely use, copy, adapt, and re-share. The OER Platform will be launched with an OER version of the UNESCO *Model Curricula for Journalism Education* with shared OER adaptations from the Polytechnic of Namibia and the University of Namibia. The UNESCO/COL *Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education * outlines key issues and suggestions for integrating OER into higher education to support quality teaching and learning. The aim of this document, prepared by the Secretariat, is to encourage educational stakeholders to invest in the production, adaptation, and use of OER, and to improve the quality of curricula and teaching. The Launch is scheduled for 6:30pm Paris time (GMT-1) and will be live-streamed in: English - mms://stream.unesco.org/live/room_10_en.wmv Français - mms://stream.unesco.org/live/room_10_fr.wmv Please refer to the UNESCO OER Programme site ( www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer) for more information. We'll be tweeting the Launch on #oerlaunch and would greatly appreciate it if you would please forward this message to all your OER colleagues, and to tweet and retweet. Please excuse the cross-postings and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Regards, *Abel CAINE* UNESCO OER Programme ICT in Education, Science and Culture Section Knowledge Societies Division Communication and Information Sector UNESCO France +33 1 45 68 42 37 [email protected] www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer Twitter: @abelcaine -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- 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]
