This is a well merited recognition. Sir John, Thanks for all your efforts at making this OER dream a living reality.
On 4/2/14, Ramesh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [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/d/optout. > -- Ibrahim K. Oyekanmi Mallamibro ICT Group, Nigeria Tel: +234-808-227-7575; +234-803-800-0759 Websites: http://www.mallamibro.com, http://www.mitaedu.com http://www.yppjf.org Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Twitter: @mallamibro Skype: mallamibro -- -- 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/d/optout.
