[Oer-community] Forwarded message from Fred Mulder

[rajendran murugan]

I agree with Fred's idea. It is time to initiate more organised, collective
and structured OER initiatives.

Rajendran
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
University of Delhi

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:18 AM, rory <rory at athabascau.ca> wrote:

>  Colleagues,
> As the other UNESCO/COL Chair in OER, I would like to support Fred's
> remarks and our strong support for this mapping initiative. It is an
> integral part of the UNESCO Chair's initiative that has now been joined by
> Dr Wayne Macintosh, the new Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Chair in OER.
> The Chair's programme is charged with helping to build the international
> OER movement in support of UNESCO's millenium goals. The mapping exercise
> will help us to identify collaborator's and others in the worldwide OER
> community that will provide an impetus to the sharing, use, reuse,
> adaptation, localisation and tranlsation of  OER. When we know about each
> other we can do amazing things together.
> The Chairs are supporting the OER Knowledge Cloud
> http://oerknowledgecloud.org  for researchers in OER issues and the
> Global OER Graduate Network for researchers and students interested in
> research in OER: http://oer.unescochair-ou.nl/?page_id=320
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> All the best.
> Rory
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> On 12-11-12 11:21 AM, Susan D'Antoni wrote:
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> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
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>  /  Fred
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