Rory recently presented this message at the UNESCO OPAL meeting (November 14th). It was a well-received talk, from what I heard in people's discussions afterward. Peer-to-peer open education with OERu certification currently seems to be a very sustainable option that is worked out well enough to start implementation.
Wayne, at the meeting, I talked with some people about organizing a post-meeting seminar, in a format similar to what we do at Math Future or you do around OERu: asynchronous discussions, then a webinar. Sustainability seems an important conversation thread. The seminar should probably start after their big Berlin meeting early December. What do you think? Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > In a recent > interview<http://www.scoop.it/t/open-learning-news/p/691506005/terry-anderson-and-rory-mcgreal-speak-about-athabasca-university-and-the-oeru> > in > the UK, Professor Rory McGreal highlights cost effectiveness as the key to > success of the OERu: > > > *"Cost effectiveness is the key… How do we educate these 97 million > learners … in a cost-effective manner? [OERu] .. is the first idea that > I’ve seen that practical implementation is possible. And this could work. > * > * > * > *And the way it’d work is this: if we could get a cadre, so we get ten > percent of them through, so that’s ten million students, but that means > there’s a cadre of students who’ve done it, in all these little villages > and towns all around the world, and they’re an example to the others, and > then you can build on that and build on it and build, and that’s the way > you do it. But not only that; we have developed self-motivated learners, > and that’s what you need - you need a person who is a self motivated > learner. That’s more important than anything they learn. And so we build > that up and we’re away…"* > > > -- > 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]
