Greetings Canada OER members,

eCampusOntario would like to host a Basecamp instance and interact in other spaces – as participants choose to build community around the six-week "Intro to Open Education" MOOC on edX by David Wiley and George Siemens. It begins October 1.

Introduction to Open Education https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-open-education-utarlingtonx-link-oex , it's free to sign up and take (of course).

Introduction to Open Education | edX www.edx.org Learn about open education and how it can significantly reduce costs, increase agency and transparency, and improve learning outcomes.

We're going to use the hashtag #OpenEdMOOCCanada to build on the official hashtag.

Let's see how much of a cross-Canada following we can build together. I'm happy to add any interested participants into the Basecamp team, and can deputize anyone to add others. We could host weekly Twitter chats if desired, promote blog posts related to the learning, etc. Let's invite as many educators and learners as we can!

Other ideas and supports that you desire?

Go ahead and blow up my inbox with interested participants and I'll just keep adding people in to Basecamp. Don't forget to sign up! We can probably recruit other Canadians inside the edX shell.

jhayman@ecampusontario.ca

Thank you!!