Our Kiwi can do attitude is gaining international OER traction ...

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Everyone,

Wow -- it's been an impressive week with a number of publications and press releases recognising our hard work as an OER community.
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Barbara Chow, Director of Education Program at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has prepared a short paper on copyright and OER which is currently being used as a resource for the UNESCO / COL international discussion forum on "Taking OER beyond the OER community".

For the benefit of WikiEducators who are not participating in the form, I include a copy of Barbara's thoughts on OER for your information which you can download from WikiEducator:

http://wikieducator.org/File:WHFF-Copyright_and_OER.pdf

A time for Kiwi's, OERF and WikiEducator to celebrate  - The OERF and WE is cited as an exemplar project for adapting, modifying and publishing OER in a cost effective way.

Congratulations to all WikiEducators who have been working tirelessly to make education more accessible for all.

Cheers
Wayne

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Randy,

Fascinating (albeit the choice of KiwiEducator  -- oops I mean WikiEducator was a tad subversive ;-))

What's interesting is that "Wiki" has Hawaiian origins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) and Hawaii has strong connections with Polynesian origins. The etymology of "Kiwi" is from the the Maori language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi) who also have Polynesian roots. Serendipity? 

It's all part of our plan to share knowledge freely -- watch this space!

Wayne

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Randy Fisher <wiki...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Great news -

BTW: has anyone noticed that if you move the first 4 letters of WikiEducator around, you get "Kiwi"?

Seems pretty subversive to me...


<smile>


- Randy

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