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  • From: Jane Hornibrook <janehornibrook AT gmail.com>
  • To: cc-nz <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Cc-nz] Writing the history of OERu futures ....
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:52:52 +1300

Hello Creative Commoners

I'd like to alert you to some great work going on in the context of Open Educational Resources for tertiary education.

Below is an message detailing the progress of the global OERu initiative which you can follow closely at http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/About and/or through its associated discussion lists.

The OER university concept is derived from the original etymology of "universitas magistrorum et scholarium" referring to a community of scholars. The OER university is an innovation partnership of like-minded institutions committed to creating pathways for OER learners to gain academic credit through the formal education system. As such we use the lowercase "u" to refer to the OER university collaboration. The OER university is not a formal teaching institution and does not confer degrees or qualifications -- but works in partnership with accredited educational institutions to provide credit for OER learning on the pathway to awarding credible credentials.

The OER university will:
  • enable accredited educational institutions to provide assessment and credit pathways for formal academic credit at reduced student fees, which lead to recognised credentials.
  • offer courses and programmes based entirely on open education resources and open textbooks licensed under free cultural works approved open content licenses.
  • implement scalable systems of volunteer student support through community service learning approaches.
  • promote the design and teaching of courses utilising open pedagogical approaches to facilitate networked learning.
  • use free and open source software for its administration.

This work is hugely relevant for those vested in the use of Creative Commons licensing for the sharing and development of learning, and its worth noting involvement from a couple of Kiwi institutions. The OER Foundation invites you to get invloved!

With regards
Jane




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wayne AT gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Subject: [Heywire8] Writing the history of OERu futures ....
To: oer-university AT googlegroups.com, WikiEducator <wikieducator AT googlegroups.com>, heywire8- AT googlegroups.com


Hi Everyone,

In preparation for the open planning for the OERu meeting of founding anchor partners, I have prepared a summary of the timeline including key events, partners and activities to date.  This summary should help to minimize the temptation of spending time on questions which have already been answered.   

We are collectively writing the history of the future of OER, and thought it would be useful to share this summary.

Remember -- you can register to attend and participate virtually in the OERu meeting of founding anchor partners here:

http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/2011.11_OERu_virtual_meeting_participants

Timeline and relevant links for the OERu initiative:


OER Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) founding anchor partners as on 1 October 2011:

  • Athabasca University (Canada)
  • BCcampus (Canada)
  • Empire State College (State University of New York, USA)
  • Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (New Zealand)
  • OER Foundation (International)
  • Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand)
  • Southern New Hampshire University (USA)
  • Thomson Rivers University (Canada)
  • University of South Africa (Republic of South Africa)
  • University of Southern Queensland (Australia) 

Meeting and OERu sponsors

  • UNESCO Office for the Pacific States
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 



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