WikiEducator Community Council
Governance for an Open Community
In no order of preference, nominations (if any) are listed alphabetically according to surname
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Ahrash N. Bissell, Executive Director, CC Learn
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| Proposer
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Wayne Mackintosh
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| Second
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Ken Udas
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| Justification
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- ccLearn is a division of the Creative Commons dedicated to support open learning and open educational resources and is well aligned with WikiEducator's vision and mission;
- The WikiEducator project utilises Creative Commons licenses (CC-BY and CC-BY-SA) and this nomination represents an appropriate and effective mechanism to keep abreast with contemporary licensing developments;
- Our Council has limited expertise pertaining to intricacies of Creative Commons licensing;
- Creative Commons is charitable corporation and external experience in the management of non-profit entities would be a valuable asset to our community.
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| Nominee
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Christine Geith
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| Proposer
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Ken Udas
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| Second
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Randy Fisher
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| Justification
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- Only woman who attended the Tectonic Shift Think Tank meeting
- Respected WikiEducator Ambassador
- Senior woman leader at a major Land Grant University
- Active record of advocacy of WikiEducator and OER among her peer professional group at the institutional, local, national, and international levels
- Active use of WikiEducator as part of her unit’s regular business process, including contribution of open educational materials on International Finance
- Contested the first WikiEducator Council elections
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| Nominee
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Sanjaya Mishra
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| Proposer
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Pankaj Khare
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| Second
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Victor Mensah
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| Justification
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- WikiArtisan, mastered with the WE skills and have done couple of online projects keeping WikiEducator in core IGNOU SLM Training Online
- WikiEducator Member since 8th August 2006.
- Promoting concept of open knowledge resources, dedicated complete OER Book to the community, Write 2 Teach in 3 Days, 2008.
- Known instructional designer and trainer on ODL in South-East Asia and South Asia. Resume
- WikiEducator Ambassador promotional events
- WikiEducator, Open Souce and E-Learning: A presentation by Dr. Pankaj Khare and Dr.Sanjaya Mishra on 3rd November 2007 at EMPC, IGNOU, New Delhi as part of the Workshop on Development of Self-Learning Materials for Distance and Online Learning organized by STRIDE, IGNOU from 29 October - 3rd November 2007. Dr. Wayne Macintosh supported the session through a tele-presentation. The workshop was attended by 36 teachers from various parts of India.
- Wikis, Podcasts and Blogs: A presentation by Dr. Sanjaya Mishra and Dr. Pankaj Khare on 25th January 2008 during the Refresher Programme in Distance Education (7-28 Jan 2008) organized by STRIDE, IGNOU. 20 Participants attended the session and became member of the WikiEducator.
- WikiEducator demonstrations: At Open School, BOU, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 7th February 2008 to a group of 15 teachers; and also to a group of 5 persons at CAMPE.
- Participated in the PCF5 Session on Commonwealth values in a digital world: WikiEducator, an international community project, during 13 to 17 July 2008, University of London, London.
- Promoting WikiEducator in all F2F workshops conducted by STRIDE.
- Active WikiNeighbour.
- Active Administrator of WikiEducator
- May like to see his Blog, "TEACHKNOWLOGIST"
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| Nominee
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Erik Möller, Germany
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| Proposer
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Günther Osswald
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| Second
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Savithri Singh
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| Justification
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- Eric is currently Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Having been with Wikipedia since its beginnings, he has extensive experience of the governance of wiki projects
- Member of our Interim International Advisory Board
- Erik has been engaged actively with WikiEducator since the beginning
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| Nominee
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Anil Prasad
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| Proposer
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Pankaj Khare
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| Second
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Randy Fisher
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| Justification
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- WikiArtisan, mastered with the WE skills and conducted many workshops on WikiEducator
- WikiEducator Member since 25th September 2007 with above 1500 articles on Wiki pages.
- Initiated India Country Page, a rich information on WikiEducator activities in India.
- Working actively for Long Learning Farmers (L3Farmers)
- Active WikiNeighbour.
- Firm beleiver in free and open education, volunteers to support the movement of OER.
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| Nominee
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David Wiley
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| Proposer
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Wayne Mackintosh
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| Second
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Ken Udas
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| Justification
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- Pioneer of the open content movement in education founding the first Open Content license in 1999
- Founding Director of the Centre for Open and Sustainable Education and instrumental in building the OpenCourseware Consortium;
- Brought the development of the OER Handbook for Educators to WikiEducator - An international collaboration and our first book available online as a bound printed copy.
- Community leader involved with the establishment of the Open High School of Utah -- the first high school to be based entirely on OER thus providing WikiEducator with valuable insights into improving WikiEducator's work in the school sector.
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