Hi Everyone,
Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed
off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand
schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to:
The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the
project outlined in this proposal:
http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools.
I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal
and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your
respective countries.
All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under
free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context
:-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and
use by all WikiEducators.
Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community!
Cheers
Wayne
(Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still
be updated in the wiki.)
--
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
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Skype: WGMNZ1
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