Well done. Yet another example of quiet, intelligent and persistent work paying off. Brilliant and needs blogging and tweeting about. Can we celebrate it at the Education Conference? Jon
On 19 September 2013 10:39, Martin Poulter <infob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good news from Wales, forwarded from the OER-Discuss list. There was also > this follow-up statement: "Higher Education Wales (the Welsh branch of > UniversitesUK) have agreed to a common statement of principles which was > signed by the last of the [university Vice Chancellors] yesterday. It > should appear on their website shortly." > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Haydn Blackey <haydn.blac...@southwales.ac.uk> > Date: 19 September 2013 08:05 > Subject: Doing OER in HE nationally > To: oer-disc...@jiscmail.ac.uk > > > Hi all, > > I’m glad to be able to announce the work we have been engaged with in > Wales for the last few months. > > Today Wales is able to confirm the commitment of all Welsh Higher > Education institutions to the adoption of Open Educational principles to > support Open Education Resources and Open Education Practice: > > * > http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/welsh-universities-commit-to-sharing-course-material-online/2007451.article > *<http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/welsh-universities-commit-to-sharing-course-material-online/2007451.article> > As you can imagine getting all the nation’s VCs to commit to this has been > a time consuming, but we hope valuable exercise. Now to deliver on the > promise of this collaberation. > Cheers, > Haydn > *Haydn Blackey > **Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching* │*Pennaeth > Canolfan Rhagoriaeth Dysgu ac Addysgu > **Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching* │*Canolfan Rhagoriaeth > Dysgu ac Addysgu** > **University of South Wales* │*Prifysgol De Cymru > **Pontypridd *│*Pontypridd > **Wales*│*Cymru > **CF37 1DL* > Tel │Ffôn: *+44 (0)1443 654331* > *haydn.blac...@southwales.ac.uk* <hblac...@glam.ac.uk> > *http://www.southwales.ac.uk* <http://www.southwales.ac.uk> > > > > > -- > Dr Martin L Poulter > Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador, July 2013 - March 2014 > Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter > Volunteer, Wikimedia UK > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter<http://uk.wikimedia.org/> > Musician http://soundcloud.com/martin-poulter > http://myspace.com/comapilot > Person http://infobomb.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
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