[Oer-community] Closing

Hollis Sankar hcsankar at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 03:09:39 MST 2012


Dear Susan,
I was more a reader than a writer during this process but was able to see
how people across the world think alike. Sure the OER movement is gaining
momentum .

Thanks to Atabasca University of Canada for their contribution to this
global effort.

Long Live Lifelong learning.  ....long live the OER movement.
Hollis Sankar
Trinidad and tobago


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
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> We have come to the end of Week 3 and the conclusion of this discussion in
> the OER community.  We had a task when we set out on this discussion – to
> consider the advantages of a global mapping to list and visualize OER
> initiatives, what we need to know about them, and how collaboration could
> be organized.
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>
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> Thank you
>
>
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> Thanks to all of you – you are almost 900 in number who have contributed
> and followed this conversation.  You have exchanged more than 400
> messages – discussion has certainly been lively and informative, and
> occasionally contentious, as a fine debate should be.
>
>
>
> Thanks to Mary Lou Forward and the Open CourseWare Foundation for making
> the data available for our sample maps and to Teresa Connolly for creating
> them.
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> I would also like to thank the Hewlett Foundation for the years of support
> of OER community interaction, first at the International Institute for
> Educational Planning (IIEP), then in the Education Sector of UNESCO and now
> through the network of the UNESCO Chairs in OER.  The initial vision and
> leadership of Mike Smith and Cathy Casserly, and now that of Barbara Chow,
> Vic Vuchic and Kathy Nicholson, have helped many of us with our OER
> initiatives, building a global “OER family” over the past decade.  Much
> has been accomplished in ten years.
>
>
>
> Next steps …
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> 1   We will be sending you all a brief summary of the discussion of the
> past week as we have done for Weeks 1 and 2.
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> 2   Then we will draw these summaries together into a draft report and
> forward that to you in mid December for your review and feedback by mid
> January.
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> 3   We will be making the documentation available on the UNESCO/COL Chair
> web site (https://unescochair.athabascau.ca/oer-mapping-exercise) and on
> the OER Knowledge Cloud (https://oerknowledgecloud.org/).  We will also
> make the archives of the discussion available.
>
>
>
> (Please note that all problems associated with the configuration of the
> Mailman list are mine, because of my worries about administrative messages
> annoying the group.  As a result I moderated the discussion to avoid this.
> But within a few days the moderation finction was removed.   My worries
> were unnecessary.  Everyone was very respectful in sending admin messages
> directly to me.  The list itself was always open to anyone to subscribe
> to without approval.)
>
>
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> 4   Several colleagues in different regions have considered holding
> follow up discussions ot the topic in their own languages and networks.
> This will be very important follow up to our international discussion.  We
> hope to hear from them about their deliberations and their needs.  This
> feedback will be incorporated into the final report.
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>
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> 5   From the ardent discussion of metadata and licenses, it is clear that
> these exchanges that took place in our forum will be continued in others.
> This list will remain open for a little longer to allow you to make any
> connections you wish to follow up on.
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> Let me close with my own personal thanks again and commitment to move
> forward with the deliberations of the group about building an OER World Map.
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> We need only connect ...
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> My best wishes as always,
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>
> Susan
>
> --
> Susan D'Antoni
>
> Advisor to the President
> International OER Initiatives
> Athabasca University
> Canada
> tel 613 232 6496
> skype iiepsusan
>
>
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hollis c sankar
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