The University of South Africa (Unisa) is the world's first single mode distance teaching university. As a mega university and Africa's largest comprehensive university, Unisa is leading again. It's official! Unisa approves an OER strategy.
"*As the African University in service of humanity, we have a responsibility to share the gift of knowledge. OER provides the vehicle for our institution to lead by example in widening access to educational opportunity*.” Narend Baijnath, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Unisa. Read more ... <http://oeru.org/news/oeru-partner-unisa-approves-oer-strategy/> This is a significant development for WikiEducators because we can now show our own institutions that it is possible to adopt open policies which integrate OER into mainstream institutional teaching and learning activities. Well done Unisa! -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation UNESCO, COL and ICDE Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic & OER Foundation Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: Mackiwg -- -- 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.
