Namaste Gita <Blush> -- Like yourself, I'm an educator/teacher that is driven by the satisfaction of making the world a better place.
The growth of devoted and committed teachers across the world is what inspires our OER work. I grew up to witness the scourge of apartheid in South Africa --- and as you know, your father of Indian independence spent some time in South Africa working on the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in those difficult years. Mahatma Gandhi has challenged us to: "Be the change you want to see in the world." OER is an opportunity for individual educators to live up to Gandhi's challenge :-) Cheers and thanks Wayne 2009/7/27 Gita Mathur <gita.mat...@gmail.com> > > Hi Wayne > CONGRATULATIONS! to the WikiEducator Community. Wayne your leadership > and enthusiasm have lead to this achievement. Hope to get many more > devoted & commited teachers & Educators to contribute to this endeavour. > Warm regards > Gita > - > Dr. Gita Mathur <gita.mat...@gmail.com> > Associate Professor of Botany > Gargi College (University of Delhi) > Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 > skype:gitamathur > > Web: > http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur > http://wikieducator.org/India > http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur > http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 > http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 > > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 20:51 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm very pleased to share the news that our recent bid submitted to > > the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been successful. > > > > The OER Foundation has been awarded a grant of $200 000 to support > > strategic WikiEducator projects. > > > > This is a testament to our community's passion and commitment to > > collaborative models of OER creation and distribution. The > > WikiEducator community can stand proud and take a brief moment of > > reflection and celebrate what we have achieved! This is another > > significant milestone for the WikiEducator family and our wiki model > > of OER development. > > > > This generous funding support from the Hewlett foundation will enable > > us to: > > > > 1) Continue WikiEducator's work in hosting the world's largest wiki > > skills training project in the formal education sector. This grant > > will ensure that we can continue providing a minimum of one online > > Learning4Content workshop for the next 2 years. WikiEducator will > > continue to provide opportunities for educators around the world to > > acquire wiki skills for OER content development and collaboration. > > 2) Build a technology bridge for OER content interoperability between > > Connexions and the Mediawiki software platforms thus fostering further > > development and scalability of the OER ecosystem among projects which > > subscribe to the free cultural works definition. > > 3) Establish a national OER collaboration for the school sector in New > > Zealand with the view to developing resources and models that can be > > reused and remixed for other countries around the world. > > > > I would also like to congratulate our friends at the Wikimedia > > Foundation (WMF) and their respective community projects. > > > > The Hewlett Foundation have also awarded the WMF a grant of $500,000 > > for general operating support of the largest free content initiative > > in the world. Congratulations to our free content partners at the WMF! > > This combined with the recent resolution of WMF projects to support > > the CC-BY-SA license is reason for celebration in the free culture > > movement --- particularly those projects which have remained true to > > licensing alternatives which meet the requirements of the free > > cultural works definition. > > > > I'm proud that the OER Foundation and WikiEducator have remained true > > to our core values modeling approaches for open philanthropy by > > developing all our funding proposals openly and transparently in the > > wiki. > > > > A special word of thanks to every WikiEducator who continues to > > demonstrate that the purpose of education is to share knowledge > > freely. > > > > Now onto making the future happen -- we have lots of work to do and > > we're going to need all the help we can get! > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > > Director, > > International Centre for Open Education, > > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, > > www.wikieducator.org > > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > > Skype: WGMNZ1 > > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > > > > > > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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