Hi Wayne (and everyone) Congratulations Wayne on the UPE award, as commented by the others an inspiration to the WE community and to Open Education.
Cheers - Michael Verhaart <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mverhaart> *::* *Associate Professor, School of Computing* *Eastern Institute of Technology,* *Hawke's Bay, New Zealand* On Sunday, February 2, 2014 7:48:14 AM UTC+13, Ramesh Sharma wrote: > > Dear Friends, > January 2014 > <http://wikieducator.org/File:Wayne_Mackintosh_Yale_2010.jpg> > > It was in February 2006 the domain names for wikieducator.org, > wikieducator.net and wikieductor.com were registered by Wayne > Mackintosh<http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, > a WikiEducator mailing list was created by Brent > Simpson<http://wikieducator.org/User:BrentSimpson>in January 2007 and the > WikiEducator launched the highly popular > Learning4Content <http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content> project in > January 2008. WikiEducator's first online training session was conducted in > February 2007, since then our WE is now a 67,882 registered user strong > community having provided online training to several thousand teachers and > professionals. As an evolving community, WE're turning the digital divide > into digital dividends using free content and open networks. > > Currently Wayne <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg> is the founding > Director of the OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> and the > International Centre for Open Education based at Otago > Polytechnic<http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz>, > New Zealand. He also holds the UNESCO-COL Chair in OER at Otago > Polytechnic. It was during his stint at the Commonwealth of > Learning<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Learning>he founded the > WikiEducator, we all are in agreement with him for it to be > the most rewarding project for turning the digital divide into digital > dividends for thousands of teachers, students and educators. He was also an > Associate Professor and founding director of the Centre for Flexible and > Distance Learning (CFDL) at the University of > Auckland<http://www.auckland.ac.nz>, > New Zealand. Truly a global figure, he has worked and lived in three > different regions of the Commonwealth, namely Africa (South > Africa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa>), > the Pacific (New Zealand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand>) and > North America (Canada <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada>). > > We believe that its about time now that WE express our thanks to the > founder of WikiEducator, Dr Wayne > Mackintosh<http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, > he sure is a winner of our hearts!! > > Let's begin this year 2014 with our expression of thanks, gratitude and > appreciation for Wayne <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>for his > vision, support, leadership and commitment to the cause of building open > educational resources, free content and open networks. > > With best wishes > > Nellie and Ramesh > -- -- 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.
