Thanks for the holiday wishes wayne, and the very best to you and yours Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 (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 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, Ph.D. > Director OER Foundation > Director, International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter | identi.ca > Wikiblog > > -- > 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] -- 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]
