Greetings from the netherlands, I am still trying to figure out how wikieducator and tweeters work in conjunction with the course. I have about 10 years experience with OERs and developing distance learning curriculium. Would appreciate a reply, then I am confident we are connected. Thank you Gary Asselbergs
On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 1:54:41 AM UTC+2, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > We're pleased to launch the prototype offering of the Digital Skills for > Collaborative OER Development <http://ds4oer.oeru.org/> (DS4OER) course > today. > > The OERu envisions a world where all learners will have more affordable > access to higher education. > > The DS4OER course was developed to build capacity in the design and > development of open online courses using OER. A key feature of this course > is the ability for any educator to host their *own* course site using the > popular open source WordPress content management system assembled from a > collection of wiki pages authored openly and collaboratively. > > We are "eating our own dog food > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food>". We developed > the course pages in WikiEducator. I am hosting the course site using > WordPress and my own domain using the free tier from OpenShift > <https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing> (Red Hat linux's public > cloud application.) > > We acknowledge the funding support of the New Zealand National Commission > for UNESCO which has supported the development of the course materials and > the open source technologies we are using to enable educators around the > world to widen access to open online courses using OER. > > If you wan't to learn how to do this, come join us at: > http://ds4oer.oeru.org or pop in to say hi on the aggregated course feed > <http://ds4oer.oeru.org/interactions/course-feed/>. You can post using > the #DS4OER tag. > > As a prototype, we apologise in advance for any teething problems but hope > that your feedback will help us to improve. > > We are widening options for educators around the world to create and host > their own open online courses using open source software. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh > Director OER Foundation > UNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER > 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 [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.
