International collaboration -- Open content licensing project

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi everyone.

The OER Foundation, OCW Consortium and Creative Commoners have started a project to develop guidelines to help educators take informed decisions on open content licensing. We also aim to develop a short online workshop which will be freely available for all educators around the world.

We're hosting an open meeting tomorrow to discuss the project - - and you most welcome to join us see details below.

This is an open invitation to all WIkiEducators interested in developing support materials in helping educators take informed decisions about open content licensing.

You will find more information on the project home page (http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Home).

Anyone interested is free to join -- just add your name to the participant list: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Participants

Working together we can achieve far more than working alone.

Cheers
Wayne

Virtual meeting - 26 October, 5pm EDT.

• Time:  26 October 2010, 5pm EDT (North America) - - Check your international time zone.  (With apology for any awkward times -- our team is literally spread across the globe. All planning and activities will be conducted asynchronously in the wiki -- so you can have your say :-) )
• Venue: Breeze meeting room hosted by OCWC: http://breezemeeting.asu.edu/ocwc
  

We are pleased to announce some funding support from the UNESCO Apia Office for our collaboration. Terms of reference have been posted in the wiki.

Things you should do now

• Join the email list hosted by OCWC - - you must register yourself. Follow the instructions on screen: http://ocwconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/openlicensing_ocwconsortium.org
  
• Bookmark the home page for our project: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Home
• Read the draft project plan under development: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Project_plan
• We aim to maximise reuse of existing materials which can be released under a CC-BY license. Please add links to existing materials which will be useful for our collaboration: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Existing_resources
• Share your ideas. Add them to our open brainstorm list: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Project_plan#Brainstorm_list
  

Look forward to chatting with you soon. This is an amazing project -- we are modelling remix and collaboration!


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Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director OER Foundation
Director, International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator
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