MITE/Quality4Learning/Funding Proposal

Objectives
Design the project so that it:
 * supports teachers to increase the quality of educational materials (and learning experiences)
 * increases teachers' skill development
 * increases capacity of growing US and international community
 * addresses gaps in the open education ecosystem, and makes the connection between the nodes/[projects

Structure

 * OERFoundation - Wayne, Randy & Gurmit
 * MITE -- Ruth, Terri
 * Others?
 * Teachers without Borders (Hewlett Funded Project) (says Wayne)

Process

 * design of participatory action learning model with online & F2F blend (a la Learning4Content model
 * delivery of action learning-based online & F2F blend - requires facilitators (a la L4C model)
 * facilitation of learning communities
 * certification (apprenticeship/L4C model)
 * train-the-trainer component for facilitators