{"id":354,"date":"2011-02-16T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/towards-an-oer-university-free-learning-for-all-students-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T16:14:00","slug":"towards-an-oer-university-free-learning-for-all-students-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/towards-an-oer-university-free-learning-for-all-students-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an OER University: Free learning for all students worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"clear: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png\" style=\"clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Australian Coat of Arms (adopted 1912)\" height=\"154\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png\/300px-Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 150px;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; line-height: 18px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oer.sbctc.edu\/2011\/02\/towards-oer-university-free-learning.html\">Cable Green&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve &#8220;a quantum shift&#8221; in higher education access by launching an &#8220;OER university&#8221;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=415127&amp;c=1\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">article<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Concept is:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/OER_University\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/OER_University<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">There is an open&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/Towards_an_OER_university:_Free_learning_for_all_students_worldwide\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">meeting<\/a>&nbsp;(all are invited) on Feb 22: Noon \u2013 8:00pm (pacific). If you can\u2019t make it to New Zealand \u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students\/Meetings#Virtual_participants\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"OER for Assessment and Credit for Students\/Meetings\">join the meeting<\/a>&nbsp;as a virtual participant\u2026 I\u2019ll be attending from Olympia, WA \ud83d\ude09&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Please tag this activity with:&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>#oeru<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learncentral.org\/node\/137089\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">Webinar recording<\/a>.&nbsp; (direct&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sas.elluminate.com\/p.jnlp?psid=2011-02-11.1146.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&amp;sid=2008350\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">link<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>Creative Commons&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/26358\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">post<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -0.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00b7<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=415115&amp;c=1\" style=\"color: #213abb; text-decoration: none;\">Editorial<\/a>&nbsp;on meeting (by organizer)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2kB8GAudNFQ\/TVdon2crgnI\/AAAAAAAAArI\/dQkdibehsEg\/s1600\/OER-uni.png\" style=\"color: #213abb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2kB8GAudNFQ\/TVdon2crgnI\/AAAAAAAAArI\/dQkdibehsEg\/s640\/OER-uni.png\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976562) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;\" width=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/?p=26358\">Designing assessment and credit pathways for open education learners<\/a> (creativecommons.org)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ictelt.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/oer-pie-in-sky-or-meaningful-reality.html\">OER: Pie in the sky or meaningful reality? (INVITED BLOGGER OF THE MONTH &#8211; November)<\/a> (ictelt.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/post\/54665\/rd\">$2billion for OERs could end the textbook industry as we know it&#8230;<\/a> (downes.ca)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/23718\">The Right to Research Coalition&#8217;s Nick Shockey: Open Education and Policy<\/a> (creativecommons.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=47c5fb22-65ed-48fd-8a36-5a04da9a724c\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia This is from Cable Green&#8217;s blog: Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve &#8220;a quantum shift&#8221; in higher education access by launching an &#8220;OER university&#8221;. (article) Concept is:&nbsp;http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/OER_University There is an open&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;(all are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/towards-an-oer-university-free-learning-for-all-students-worldwide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,189,87],"tags":[495,365],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oer","category-open-education","category-open-educational-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-open-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}