[Irtalk] Fwd: [Open-education] Digital Skills for Collaborative OER Development (DS4OER)

[Hilton Gibson]

*"The DS4OER course was developed to build capacity in the design and
development of open online courses using OER. A key feature of this course
is the ability for any educator to host their own course site using the
popular open source WordPress content management system assembled from a
collection of wiki pages authored openly and collaboratively.*"

*Hilton Gibson*
Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator
JS Gericke Library
Room 1025C
Stellenbosch University
Private Bag X5036
Stellenbosch
7599
South Africa

Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pat Lockley (Pgogy) <info at pgogywebstuff.com>
Date: 13 April 2015 at 15:36
Subject: [Open-education] Digital Skills for Collaborative OER Development
(DS4OER)
To: oer-discuss at jiscmail.ac.uk, OPENEDSIG at jiscmail.ac.uk,
open-education at lists.okfn.org


Hello All

** apologies for cross posting, or if this post makes you cross **

Below is an email from Wayne Mackintosh (Director OER Foundation and
UNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER) sent to a few other lists

**********

We're pleased to launch the prototype offering of the Digital Skills for
Collaborative OER Development (DS4OER) course today.

The OERu envisions a world where all learners will have more affordable
access to higher education.

The DS4OER course was developed to build capacity in the design and
development of open online courses using OER. A key feature of this course
is the ability for any educator to host their own course site using the
popular open source WordPress content management system assembled from a
collection of wiki pages authored openly and collaboratively.

We acknowledge the funding support of the New Zealand National Commission
for UNESCO which has supported the development of the course materials and
the open source technologies we are using to enable educators around the
world to widen access to open online courses using OER.

If you wan't to learn how to do this, come join us at:
http://ds4oer.oeru.org or pop in to say hi on the aggregated course feed.
You can post using the #DS4OER tag.

As a prototype, we apologise in advance for any teething problems but hope
that your feedback will help us to improve.

We are widening options for educators around the world to create and host
their own open online courses using open source software.

**********

For those looking at this at a larger level, this course is importing
collaboratively authored mediawiki content (from WikiEducator) into a
WordPress host (where it has been remixed and repurposed)

(for disclosure purposes I helped with some of the WordPress on this course)

-- 
Pgogy Webstuff
pgogywebstuff.com
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