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Tuesday, 21 April 2009
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The MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) and its network of partners announce the Call-for-Nominations for the 2nd International MAN@eLA Awards 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 http://man.merlot.org/manela/index.html to see the award criteria, application information and online nomination forms, and a list of past recipients.
Arif Jinha International Co-Chair
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