Featured WikiEducator UPE (January 2014): Wayne Mackintosh

[Ramesh Sharma]

Dear Friends,

January 2014

It was in February 2006 the domain names for wikieducator.org, wikieducator.net and wikieductor.com were registered by Wayne Mackintosh, a WikiEducator mailing list was created by Brent Simpson in January 2007 and the WikiEducator launched the highly popular Learning4Content project in January 2008. WikiEducator's first online training session was conducted in February 2007, since then our WE is now a 67,882 registered user strong community having provided online training to several thousand teachers and professionals. As an evolving community, WE're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks.

Currently Wayne is the founding Director of the OER Foundation and the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. He also holds the UNESCO-COL Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic. It was during his stint at the Commonwealth of Learning he founded the WikiEducator, we all are in agreement with him for it to be the most rewarding project for turning the digital divide into digital dividends for thousands of teachers, students and educators. He was also an Associate Professor and founding director of the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Truly a global figure, he has worked and lived in three different regions of the Commonwealth, namely Africa (South Africa), the Pacific (New Zealand) and North America (Canada).

We believe that its about time now that WE express our thanks to the founder of WikiEducator, Dr Wayne Mackintosh, he sure is a winner of our hearts!!

Let's begin this year 2014 with our expression of thanks, gratitude and appreciation for Wayne for his vision, support, leadership and commitment to the cause of building open educational resources, free content and open networks.

With best wishes

Nellie and Ramesh

[gene loeb]

Ramesh and Nellie,

These comments are very appropriate and it is good that Wayne's contributions are recognized. He has had a wide effect on the learning of many internationally and has set a fine example for an example and organization for helping others. I add my thanks, gratitude and appreciation for Wayne for his wor. Yes, he is  a winner of our hearts.

With Best wishes,

Gene

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With Sincerest Best Wishes ,

Gene
Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

[Ibrahim K. Oyekanmi (Mallamibro)]

This is a well deserved recognition for a pacesetter who has worked to
make OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES a phrase that now has a recognizable
place in global education. Wayne, keep up the good work.

On 2/1/14, gene loeb <gene...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ramesh and Nellie,
> These comments are very appropriate and it is good that Wayne's
> contributions are recognized. He has had a wide effect on the learning of
> many internationally and has set a fine example for an example and
> organization for helping others. I add my thanks, gratitude and
> appreciation for Wayne for his wor. Yes, he is a winner of our hearts.
>
> With Best wishes,
> Gene
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Ramesh Sharma
> <ram...@oerfoundation.org>wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>> January 2014

>> <http://wikieducator.org/File:Wayne_Mackintosh_Yale_2010.jpg>

>>
>> It was in February 2006 the domain names for wikieducator.org,
>> wikieducator.net and wikieductor.com were registered by Wayne

>> Mackintosh<http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>,

>> a WikiEducator mailing list was created by Brent

>> Simpson<http://wikieducator.org/User:BrentSimpson>in January 2007 and the

>> WikiEducator launched the highly popular

>> Learning4Content <http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content> project in

>> January 2008. WikiEducator's first online training session was conducted
>> in
>> February 2007, since then our WE is now a 67,882 registered user strong
>> community having provided online training to several thousand teachers
>> and
>> professionals. As an evolving community, WE're turning the digital divide
>> into digital dividends using free content and open networks.
>>

>> Currently Wayne <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg> is the founding
>> Director of the OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> and the

>> International Centre for Open Education based at Otago

>> Polytechnic<http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz>,

>> New Zealand. He also holds the UNESCO-COL Chair in OER at Otago
>> Polytechnic. It was during his stint at the Commonwealth of

>> Learning<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Learning>he founded

>> the WikiEducator, we all are in agreement with him for it to be
>> the most rewarding project for turning the digital divide into digital
>> dividends for thousands of teachers, students and educators. He was also
>> an
>> Associate Professor and founding director of the Centre for Flexible and
>> Distance Learning (CFDL) at the University of

>> Auckland<http://www.auckland.ac.nz>,

>> New Zealand. Truly a global figure, he has worked and lived in three
>> different regions of the Commonwealth, namely Africa (South

>> Africa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa>),
>> the Pacific (New Zealand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand>) and
>> North America (Canada <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada>).

>>
>> We believe that its about time now that WE express our thanks to the
>> founder of WikiEducator, Dr Wayne

>> Mackintosh<http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>,

>> he sure is a winner of our hearts!!
>>
>> Let's begin this year 2014 with our expression of thanks, gratitude and

>> appreciation for Wayne <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>for his

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[Gita Mathur]

Congratulations Dear Wayne, not just for the UPE but for every UPE won by all of us. You must get credit for each and every Userpage! Thanks for creating this unique community of dedicated educators.
Ramesh & Nellie, great thought to honour Dr.Wayne Mackintosh and for giving us this forum to thank him.
Warm regards to all.
Gita Mathur

[Patricia Schlicht]

Congratulations, Wayne. You have personally inspired a journey that I
never thought possible when we first started out and I haven't looked
back since. I learned so many things that opened up my mind in ways
unlike ever before, so I would like to take this opportunity to thank
you for unleashing a passion I never knew I had: Open Education and
all that is involved. You are most definitely a teacher non like any
other I have met during the course of my professional career and I
admire you for your vision, leadership and your ability to inspire and
enable others. Well done!
Warm wishes
Patricia Schlicht

*Warm wishes,**

**Patricia Schlicht*

** <https://www.facebook.com/patriciaschlicht>*ca.linkedin.com/in/pschlicht/
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht

* <http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht>

[Michael Verhaart]

Hi Wayne (and everyone)

Congratulations Wayne on the UPE award, as commented by the others an inspiration to the WE community and to Open Education.

Cheers

• Michael Verhaart

:: Associate Professor, School of Computing

Eastern Institute of Technology,

 Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

[Anil Prasad]

Community rewards the founder! CONGRATULATIONS DR. WAYNE!

Warm regards

Anil

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[Luis Miguel Morillas]

Congratulations, Wayne!

Best Regards,

-- luismiguel  (@lmorillas)

2014-02-02 Anil Prasad <aple...@gmail.com>:

[Steve Foerster]

Nellie, Ramesh, and all,

What a great choice, and what a great way for us all to start off 2014!

-=Steve=-

[Joyce.M...@esc.edu]

Congratulations, Wayne!  

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Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Featured WikiEducator UPE (January 2014): Wayne Mackintosh

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Everyone,

What a lovely surprise! I couldn't have wished for a better way to kick off my work in 2014 now that I'm back into the swing of things after my annual summer vacation break :-)

Thanks for your kind wishes -- much appreciated <blush>.

Our successes are the result of hundreds of educators volunteering time to share the gift of knowledge freely for better education futures - so thank you all for your help and commitment in turning an open vision into reality. WE are an important node in the evolving and dynamic OER ecosystem. 

While acknowledging our past successes we should also recognise that we still have lots of work to do in mainstreaming open education approaches worldwide. I look forward to working with you all during 2014 in taking a few more steps forward in widening access to more affordable education using OER. 

With your help and shared leadership  - Let's make open futures happen!

Wayne 

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Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director OER Foundation
UNESCO, COL and ICDE Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic & OER Foundation

Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducator
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