The University of Mississippi will be offering a post-graduate course on "Open Educational Resources and Practices” (EDHE 670) early in the new year. Open licensing forms an integral component of open educational practices.
The OERu and UNESCO-COL OER Chair Network will lend a helping hand to the University of Mississippi by offering the OERu's Open Content Licensing for Educators course<http://oeruniversitas.org/oeru-partners/otago-polytechnic/open-content-licensing-for-educators-/> for EDHE 670 students in parallel with free OERu learners. Free learners will have the option for formal credentialing services for this mOOC towards the Open Education Practice elective of the Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education<http://wikieducator.org/Another_world_first_for_Otago_Polytechnic:_OP_to_offer_full_credential_for_the_OERu> offered through the OERu. *When*: 5 - 19 February 2014 *Where*: Online <http://wikieducator.org/OCL4Ed> *Cost*: Free *Registrations:* Open<http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Home> "*University of Mississippi graduate students in the School of Education will prepare for their careers with this unique opportunity to engage the emerging global field of open educational resources,*” says Prof Bob Cummings “*UM students will not only learn about OER, its origins and its role in the classrooms of the future, but they will have the opportunity to work with developers and theorists – both as fellow students and emerging practitioners – in a synchronous, global classroom of enrolled students and unenrolled learners.*” Read more <http://libarts.olemiss.edu/10933/> ... -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic UNESCO-COL Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic & OER Foundation 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] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
