Hi Everyone, We set an ambitious target to achieve our 3rd century of #OCL4Ed course registrations before the holidays. The free online workshop on Open Content Licensing for Educators<http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About>(OCL4Ed) is scheduled for 23 - 27 January 2012.
Hooray! Overnight (New Zealand time) we achieved our interim target of 300 registrations. This bodes well for breaking our previous record of *332*registered participants from 61 different countries.Registrations are sill open. Don't be missed by your absence, register today: http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About We're very fortunate that Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons will be joining us as co-facilitator for the #OCL4Ed 2012-01 workshop. Cable is a leader in opening education. Before joining Creative Commons, he was instrumental in moving policy forward in Washington State and a driving force behind the Open Course Library project <http://www.opencourselibrary.org/> aiming to complete 81 high-enrolling college course to be released as OER. The OER university initiative can stand on the shoulders of our Washington State colleagues and move forward using these courses to provide opportunities for learners around the world to gain formal academic credit from these OER courses. If any educators and policy makers doubt the obviousness of opening education, you should take the time to view the "‪The Obviousness of Open Policy", a recent keynote delivered at the 2011 ALN Conference. This is a great opportunity to "meet" Cable before our #OCL4Ed workshop next year. Cable leads by example, and collaborated with the conference organizers to release a recorded version of the keynote under a CC-BY license. (During the #OCL4Ed workshop you can learn more about who owns the copyright of your recorded conference presentations and how to go about sharing your knowledge with the world.) Video recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPTzFbpKIFA Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen/sloan-the-obviousness-of-open-policy Thanks Cable for the OERu reference during your keynote and acknowledgement of the founding OERu anchor partners :-). 2011 was a quantum shift year for building the foundations for mainstream adoption of OER in post-secondary education. What will 2012 bring for open education? What do you propose we should use for our strap line during 2012? >From all of us at the OER foundation -- our best wishes to all for the holidays and the new year. -- 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]
