[Oer-community] Closing

[Kimberly Wescott]

Susan and all, 
This has been as exciting as it has been educational.  Thank you, all of you, for your contributions and, most especially, for allowing me to take part.  

Kim


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com>
To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 7:31 pm
Subject: [Oer-community] Closing


Dearcolleagues,
 
We have come to the end of Week 3 and the conclusion of this discussion in the OERcommunity.  We had atask when we set out on this discussion – to consider the advantages of a globalmapping to list and visualize OER initiatives, what we need to know about them, and howcollaboration could be organized.
 
Thank you
 
Thanks toall of you – you are almost 900 in number who have contributed and followedthis conversation.  You have exchanged morethan 400 messages – discussion has certainly been lively and informative, andoccasionally contentious, as a fine debate should be.
 
Thanks toMary Lou Forward and the Open CourseWare Foundation for making the data available for our samplemaps and to Teresa Connolly for creating them.
 
I would alsolike to thank the Hewlett Foundation for the years of support of OER community interaction, first at the International Institute for EducationalPlanning (IIEP), then in the Education Sector of UNESCO and now through the networkof the UNESCO Chairs in OER.  The initial vision and leadership of Mike Smith and Cathy Casserly, and now that of BarbaraChow, Vic Vuchic and Kathy Nicholson, have helped many of us with our OERinitiatives, building a global “OER family” over the past decade.  Much has been accomplished in ten years.
 
Next steps…
 
1   We will be sending you all a brief summaryof the discussion of the past week as we have done for Weeks 1 and 2.  
 
2   Then we will draw these summaries togetherinto a draft report and forward that to you in mid December for your review andfeedback by mid January.
 
3   We will be making the documentationavailable 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 thediscussion available.  
 
(Pleasenote that all problems associated with the configuration of the Mailman listare mine, because of my worries about administrative messages annoying thegroup.  As a result I moderated thediscussion to avoid this.  But within afew days the moderation finction was removed.  My worries were unnecessary.  Everyone was very respectful in sending adminmessages directly to me.  The list itselfwas always open to anyone to subscribe to without approval.) 
 
4   Several colleagues in different regions have considered holdingfollow 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 theirdeliberations and their needs.  Thisfeedback will be incorporated into the final report.
 
5   Fromthe 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 littlelonger to allow you to make any connections you wish to follow up on.
 
Let meclose with my own personal thanks again and commitment to move forward with thedeliberations of the group about building an OER World Map.  
 
We needonly connect ...
 
My best wishes as always,
 
Susan


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Susan D'Antoni
 
Advisor to the President
International OER Initiatives
Athabasca University
Canada
tel 613 232 6496
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