Hi Everyone, New Zealand will be hosting a National Symposium on Open Education<http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic/National_Symposium_on_Open_Education>on 8 November 2012, In Wellington.
While the New Zealand symposium may not be of interest to our international readers, the OER Foundation designed the agenda with reuse in mind. Openly licensed, it will be relatively easy to replicate symposia of this kind for your own countries, regions, provinces or states. Simply plug-in your own international and national case studies. Reuse or adapt the existing agenda<http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic/National_Symposium_on_Open_Education/Agenda> for your own context and needs. In response to the UNESCO 2012 Paris Declaration on OER<http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf>, the New Zealand National Symposium on OER will bring together educational leaders and policy makers to consider the strategic opportunities for OER in New Zealand and to explore policy enablers and practices for harnessing the potential of open education approaches for the benefit of the formal education sector in New Zealand. Sadly, I've not been able to secure funding for a live webcast of the symposium. However we have supplemented the main presentations with asynchronous video versions for remote participants. The symposium will commence work on “proposals for action” as the first step towards planning the way forward for a sector-wide response to open education in New Zealand and these proposals will be developed openly and transparently in WikiEducator to facilitate wide participation from the sector. We have a good mix of representatives from the school and tertiary sectors: 46% Executive or Senior Leaders; 42% Education practitioners; 14% Government or state agency representatives and 8% from the NGO sector. We invited participants to complete the Fair and Reasonable Practice survey to compare New Zealand opinion with international data we have collected from 800 educators worldwide. I have posted a summary of the data comparison online<http://www.slideshare.net/mackiwg/oer-fair-and-reasonable-practice-survey> . The OER Foundation looks forward to seeing more countries and regions hosting their own national or regional symposia on open education. Please feel free to reuse anything from the New Zealand symposium you may find useful. -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic 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]
