Open Access Week 2010

The OER Foundation has scheduled a number of free webinars to promote the adoption and implementation of open access resources to support teaching, learning and research in education as our New Zealand contribution to the global activities of Open Access Week 2010.

As you know, the Horizon Report has highlighted open content as a major technology to watch on the near term horizon.  Open content has the potential to transform existing business models in tertiary education and this is a unique opportunity for us to collectively contemplate what open content may mean for the community college sector around the world.

On the occasion of Open Access Week 2010, the OER Foundation invites all colleagues working in the community college sector to join our open discussions as the vocational education sector prepares for these exciting futures. Please circulate this invitation among leaders, managers and staff at your institutions.  There are two sessions which I think will be of particular interest to college members of CCCOER. We will be interviewing two senior executives at the Polytechnic reflecting on OER strategy and our experiences with adopting open intellectual property policy at a Community College. Moreover, the time zones are accessible for folk on the west coast.

See: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Access_Week_2010

Attendance is free -- and interested participants can register for an email reminder of the event.

We believe that working together we can achieve far more than working alone.

Cheers

Wayne


Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director OER Foundation
Director, International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator