Assuming that “UK” time equates to London (which is 13 hrs behind us) the New Zealand time and speakers for these free webinars are as follows:<\/p>\n
Tues 6 March, 10:30 pm-12:00 am NZ time (6 March, 9.30-11:00 am UK):<\/strong><\/p>\n Jim Taylor<\/a> (University of Southern Queensland<\/a>, an OERu<\/a> Anchor Partner),\u00a0Grainne Conole<\/a> (University of Leiceste<\/a>r) and Vasi Doncheva<\/a> (Northtec Polytechnic<\/a>, New Zealand \u2013 an OERu Anchor Partner)<\/p>\n Wed. 7 March, 4.30-6:00 am\u00a0NZ time (6 March, 3.30-5:00 pm UK)<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n George Siemens<\/a> (Athabasca University<\/a>)<\/p>\n Wed 7 March, 10:30 pm -12:00 am NZ time (7 March, 9.30-11:00 am UK)<\/strong><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/strong>Martin Weller<\/a> and\u00a0Patrick McAndrew<\/a> (both from the Open University, UK<\/a>),\u00a0Sandra Wills<\/a> (University of Wollongon<\/a>g, Australia)<\/p>\n To find out more about this series of 3 1-1\/2 hour free online seminars, and to register, visit the\u00a0Toucans Project Blog<\/a>, (which is where I copied the following text):<\/p>\n The UN has noted that there are approximately 100 million adults in the world,\u00a0mostly in developing countries,\u00a0who are eligible to enter higher education, but cannot afford the enrolment fees. As part of our contribution to Open Education Week (5-9 March), we are hostng a series of three Webinars entitled \u201cEnabling universal access to higher education via openness and collaboration?\u201d at the University of Leicester. Speakers will exchange ideas on how the emerging culture of open access, combined with the existence of new collaborative partnerships such as the\u00a0OERu<\/a> (Open Educational Resources university),\u00a0OERtest<\/a> and others, might enable access to higher education \u2013 and accreditation –\u00a0on a massive scale that would previously have been unthinkable.\u00a0Initiatives such as the OERu are actively piloting new models for the sharing of resources and expertise in higher education, to enhance the quality of their existing provision and address needs\u00a0beyond the boundaries of their traditional constituencies. To find out more, see the\u00a0\u201cFive things you should know about the OERu Network Plan\u201d.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assuming that “UK” time equates to London (which is 13 hrs behind us) the New Zealand time and speakers for these free webinars are as follows: Tues 6 March, 10:30 pm-12:00 am NZ time (6 March, 9.30-11:00 am UK): Jim Taylor (University of Southern Queensland, an OERu Anchor Partner),\u00a0Grainne Conole (University of Leicester) and Vasi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10535,10534,10537,10538,10539,10536],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cck12","tag-change11","tag-access","tag-oer","tag-oeru","tag-webinars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}