Dear Friends, March 2014 <http://wikieducator.org/File:John_Daniel.jpg>
UPE is a community award to honour WikiEducator editors. In exceptional cases we may recognise visionary leaders who have contributed to the success of the community. Sir John Daniel, O.C. served as President and C.E.O. of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) from 2004 to 2012. The formative years of the WikiEducator project were nurtured by the COL. Sir John provided valuable advice and strategic direction at the inception meeting for the OER universitas (OERu) advising that the fledgling network should be "open but tough". On November 1, 2013, he officiated at the launch of the OERu, an innovative education system to revolutionise tertiary learning. On 30 December 2013 the Governor-General of Canada named Sir John Daniel as an Officer of the Order of Canada in the New Year's List. Sir John received this prestigious award for his "advancement of open learning and distance education in Canada and around the world". Sir John Daniel was educated at Christ's Hospital and pursued his full-time university studies in Metallurgy at the universities of Oxford and Paris. Later he demonstrated his commitment to lifelong learning by taking 25 years to complete a part-time Master's degree in Educational Technology at Concordia University. The internship for that programme, which took him to the UK Open University in 1972, was a life-changing experience. He saw the future of higher education and wanted to be part of it. This quest took him on an international odyssey with appointments at the École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal (professeur assistant/agrégé, 1969-73); Télé-université, Université du Québec (Directeur des Études, 1973-77); Athabasca University (Vice-President for Learning Services, 1978-80); Concordia University (Vice-Rector, Academic, 1980-84); Laurentian University (President/Recteur, 1984-90); The Open University (Vice-Chancellor, 1990-2001); UNESCO (Assistant Director-General for Education, 2001-04); and the Commonwealth of Learning (President, 2004-12). Among Sir John's 340 publications are his books Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education (Kogan Page, 1996) and Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers: Achieving Education for All (Routledge, 2010). The three countries where he has lived and worked have each recognised his contributions with national honours: France - Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Chevalier-1986; Officier-1991); United Kingdom - Knight Bachelor (1994); Canada - Order of Canada (Officer-2013). Let's express our thanks, regards and respects to him for guiding the WikiEducator community in opening educational opportunity. 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- 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 wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
