OERF and WikiEducator strategy

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Wayne Mackintosh

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Jul 2, 2009, 8:40:23 AM7/2/09
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Hi Everyone --

I've been spending the past few weeks developing a high-level strategy for WikiEducator to scale up its global activities in developing OER in support of all national curricula in the world.

The Open Education Resource Foundation (OERF) is an independent non-profit entity which is responsible for raising and administering funds for the growth of WikiEducator and fostering the development of a sustainable OER ecosystem. We are committed to providing a free service for all educators to collaborate on the development of high quality OER.

I have now completed the first draft of a strategic plan to achieve these aims. In the near future, we aim to raise funds -- not only for the support of our technical infrastructure, but also to commission the development of OER and relevant support services for future sharing, reuse and remixing by all educators.

I invite all WikiEducators to review our collective strategy:

http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/Strategy

I would also appreciate comments, feedback and suggestions on how to improve and refine our strategy. Please post your comments here:

http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_talk:OER_Foundation/Strategy

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be tinkering away on the development of a FAQ resource, aimed at addressing key questions relating to our strategic plan.  Should any questions come to mind -- please list these on the FAQ page:

http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs

Even better if you can suggest an answer to the question you pose :-)

This is an exciting phase in the evolution and history of WikiEducator --- we're making the future happen!

Cheers
Wayne


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Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director,
International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Board of Directors, OER Foundation.
Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org
Mobile +64 21 2436 380
Skype: WGMNZ1
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Peter

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Jul 2, 2009, 1:25:49 PM7/2/09
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Wayne,

Awesome work... great to see the OERF strategy forming with its own
legs outside of COL. I am going to take the time to read all this
great work through with an eye to encouraging an IT Governance Policy
that ensures technology alignment with this strategy. For in the end
good IT Governance Policies will go a long way to ensuring the
successful implementation of technology to support strategy.

Thanks for being...

Peter

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