[Oer-community] Forwarded message from Fred Mulder

[Susan D'Antoni]

Dear Colleagues,

Fred is the UNESCO Chair holder at the Open University of the Netherlands.
 He is about to travel but wanted to give us his reaction to the ultility
of mapping OER initiatives.

Best,

Susan

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From: Mulder, Fred <Fred.Mulder at ou.nl>
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Subject: RE: FW: New discussion: Mapping OER initiatives globally
To: Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com>


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Mapping the global OER landscape is an important and very useful activity
that we should undertake. In the past we have seen various efforts to study
a wide variety of OER projects or even to create an overview of the major
OER initiatives, both institutional and national or regional. Those
efforts, however, were scattered, fragmented, and incidental. We are now at
the stage that we could build on all those experiences and could create in
a collective manner a well-and-straight-designed map of relevant OER
initiatives around the world. It is important that this global OER map will
be maintained and kept current, also and again in the community that feels
dedicated to this action line. Having smooth and easy access to such a
global up-to-date OER map will show the rapid expansion of the OER movement
to all who are interested and will further accelerate it by facilitating
others to develop their new OER activities, learning from and building on
the practices available in the map.


/  Fred

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