Welcome -- building capability together

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Everyone.

Our first post to the list.

This is a collaborative project to explore the development of a qualification for professional support staff, to parallel the teaching qualifications we have for academic staff at New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs).

The vision is to create flexible qualifications which are geared to building capability for professional staff to support learning, and to help achieve better outcomes for our learners. Course materials will be developed as Open Education Resources (OER) to enable all ITPs to widen professional development opportunities at their organisations in a cost effective and sustainable way. 

Two actions:

• Bookmark the project home page in your browser: http://tinyurl.com/39du8va
• Invite colleagues from your institutions and other ITPs who may be interested -- especially colleagues who can add value to our project. (There is a link from our homepage under the discussion list box where colleagues can join this group).
  

Working together we achieve far more than working alone!

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.
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