Open Education Week: University of Leicester to host a webinar on the OERu

[Wayne Mackintosh]

The OpenCoursware Consortium is coordinating Open Education Week 2012, 5 -10 March 2012.  This is a global event celebrating our achievements and reporting on progress of the open education movement. 

A number of OER university thought leaders will open the University of Leicester series of webinars for Open Education Week. Register your seat today: http://goo.gl/ITeyy

Further Information

On 6th and 7th March 2012, the University of Leicester will be running a series of three webinars entitled "Enabling universal access to higher education via openness and collaboration?" to celebrate Open Education Week. 

Confirmed speakers include Jim Taylor (University of Southern Queensland), Grainne Conole (University of Leicester), George Siemens (Athabasca University), Martin Weller and Patrick McAndrew (Open University UK), Sandra Wills (Wollongong University), Vasi Doncheva (Northtec Polytechnic) and Anthony Camilleri (EFQUEL and OERtest). The series is jointly hosted by the TOUCANS and ELKS projects at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, in partnership with the Open University's SCORE Programme and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. 

For more information and registration, please go to http://toucansproject.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/webinars/.

To go straight to registration, please see http://goo.gl/ITeyy .

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Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director OER Foundation
Director, International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
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