From next year, the universities involved in the UK project will begin to offer courses on the FutureLearn online platform.
He speaks with enthusiasm for the project - and says the courses he is taking have to be better "than sitting there with a can in my hand".
WikiEducator, a flagship initiative of the OER Foundation, administers the Learning4Content project - the world's largest training project to provide free wiki-skills' courses for the collaborative development of OER to thousands of educators from 140 different countries.
With on-campus courses, Dierker builds up to a project presentation at the end of the course.
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In addition to a regional virtual library network to which universities will be linked, the project will set up a cyber institute giving professors on-line access to training courses.
Where supportive policy and appropriate incentives have been addressed, results have shown significant improvement, for example, the in-service teacher trainees in NTU project, teachers were given higher status and a salary boost when they accomplished their training courses.
In addition to the capacity building efforts of the project in Japan and Pakistan, there is also a need to strengthen the human resources capacity through indigenous courses at the Pakistani educational institutions.
This Stanford project led to the founding in early 2012 of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that hosts around 200 free courses from 33 of the world's best universities, including Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, Caltech, Duke, Illinois, Washington and others.
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