eLobbyist VA has tweeted about legislation in the state of Virginia authorizing the creation of an Open Education Curriculum Board. From the summary:
The purpose of the Board is to designate qualifying entities as Open Education Consortiums and set the standards for submission of education materials and subsequent licensing of educational curriculum developed by the Consortiums.
This is just revolution.
Thanks billion to Virginia from 10.000 miles away from Turkey.
This is Muvaffak GOZAYDIN . Online guru of Turkey. I had just started personelly
Global ONLINE Universities Consortium in Turkey particularly promoting Yale, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Uni.of Michigan, UCLA of
http://www.academicearth.org Their model is very very good. But it can be made better.
Now Virginia started the same vision but with much power than I have. Therefore I am at the service of Virginia Open Education Consortium.
We can access to 7 billion people of the world without any cost. The prestige the USA and Virginia will gain will be tremendous in the world. This is vision. I am sure Hewlett Foundation will also support this initiatives with all their heart. mgozaydin@hotmail.com
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