Open content licensing for educators/Course dashboard/Announcements/14.02 Pre-course announcement 1

The UNESCO-COL OER Chair network and the OERu welcomes you to the Open Content Licensing for Educators (OCL4Ed 14.02) micro Open Online Course which starts on 5 February 2014.

This is a pre-course announcement to help you get started.

Before starting the course, we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the learning environment and layout of the course by visiting the course dashboard. We recommend that participants have a Twitter account and a personal blog site to support your learning on this course (see instructions below).

This is an open online course. The course materials are hosted on WikiEducator. Interactions and discussions are distributed across the Internet using microblog notes, blog posts and a [ Google+ Community forum] (see instructions below).

If this is your first course with OERu, please help us an take a few minutes to complete the [ new participant survey]

Please share the gift of knowledge and invite colleagues and friends to join us. Hundreds of participants from almost 50 different countries are already registered for OCL4Ed 14.02. When inviting colleagues, remember to include a link to the course homepage: http://wikieducator.org/OCL4Ed.

I look forward to meeting you during OCL4Ed 14.02!

With kind regards Wayne Mackintosh UNESCO-COL Chair in OER

Instructions to get started