<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#ff0000">"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.</font></b>"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Hilton Gibson</b></div><div>Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</div><div>JS Gericke Library</div><div>Room 1025C</div><div>Stellenbosch University</div><div>Private Bag X5036</div><div>Stellenbosch</div><div>7599</div><div>South Africa</div><div><br></div><div>Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Pat Lockley (Pgogy)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@pgogywebstuff.com">info@pgogywebstuff.com</a>></span><br>Date: 13 April 2015 at 15:36<br>Subject: [Open-education] Digital Skills for Collaborative OER Development (DS4OER)<br>To: <a href="mailto:oer-discuss@jiscmail.ac.uk">oer-discuss@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, <a href="mailto:OPENEDSIG@jiscmail.ac.uk">OPENEDSIG@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, <a href="mailto:open-education@lists.okfn.org">open-education@lists.okfn.org</a><br><br><br>Hello All<br>
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** apologies for cross posting, or if this post makes you cross **<br>
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Below is an email from Wayne Mackintosh (Director OER Foundation and UNESCO/COL/ICDE Chair in OER) sent to a few other lists<br>
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We're pleased to launch the prototype offering of the Digital Skills for Collaborative OER Development (DS4OER) course today.<br>
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The OERu envisions a world where all learners will have more affordable access to higher education.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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If you wan't to learn how to do this, come join us at: <a href="http://ds4oer.oeru.org" target="_blank">http://ds4oer.oeru.org</a> or pop in to say hi on the aggregated course feed. You can post using the #DS4OER tag.<br>
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As a prototype, we apologise in advance for any teething problems but hope that your feedback will help us to improve.<br>
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We are widening options for educators around the world to create and host their own open online courses using open source software.<br>
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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)<br>
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(for disclosure purposes I helped with some of the WordPress on this course)<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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