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Colleagues,
Perhaps you can spread this news around in the event that you know of any
projects featuring OER?
The MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) and its network of partners announce the
Call-for-Nomination for the 2nd International MAN@eLA Awards
<https://webmail-1.nvcc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail-1.nvcc.edu
/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail-1.nvcc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=
http://man.merlot.org/manela/index.html> for Exemplary Open Education Resources
(OER) Practices for Development. These prestigious awards are presented annually
to organizations, individuals, online educational resources and authoring
software tools dedicated to advancing development in Africa, and recognize three
categories of excellence: (1) Leadership Award to an individual or group that
has made significant advances in the understanding of the issues or innovations
surrounding OER and the OER Movement, (2) Virtual Laboratory Award to exemplary
teaching and learning resources that promote inquiry-based/discovery learning,
internationalization (such as multi-lingual accessibility) and usability, (3)
Software for OER Content Authoring Award (This may be a free or lower
cost/affordable proprietary software.)
Entries must be received by Thursday, April 30, 2009.
Details:
Go to the MAN@eLA website
<https://webmail-1.nvcc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail-1.nvcc.edu
/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail-1.nvcc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=
http://man.merlot.org/manela/index.html> to see the award criteria, application
information and online nomination forms, and a list of past recipients.
Thanks,
Laura
Laura Franklin
Professor of French, Alexandria Campus and ELI
Editor, MERLOT World Languages
Address Northern Virginia Community College
Humanities and Social Sciences
3001 N. Beauregard St. AA 252
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone 703.845.6325
Fax 703.845.6186
MERLOT Africa Network
http://man.merlot.org/ <http://man.merlot.org/>
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