UC Irvine Extension Dean to Present at DLI Conference.Dean Gary Matkin, Ph.D., Will Present Paper on Open Educational Resources Open educational resources (OER) are an Internet empowered worldwide community effort to create an education commons. The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries Movement for Association of Pacific Rim Universities The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), formed in 1997 is a consortium of 37 leading research universities in the Pacific Rim. APRU aims to foster education, research and enterprise thereby contributing to the economic, scientific and cultural advancement in the Pacific in Tokyo, Japan IRVINE, Calif. & TOKYO -- The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU APRU Association of Pacific Rim Universities APRU Average Revenue Per User APRU Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK) APRU Australian Police Rugby Union Association Inc. ) has invited Gary W. Matkin, Ph.D., dean of continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine, to present his paper entitled "The Open Educational Resources Movement: Current Status and Prospects" at the Distance Learning & The Internet 2006 Conference. The conference, hosted November 8 to 10 at the University of Tokyo “Todai” redirects here. For the restaurant called Todai, see Todai (restaurant). The University of Tokyo (東京大学 in Tokyo, Japan, features presentations from the world's leading distance learning experts. The theme for this year's conference is "Technology Enabled Global Knowledge Structuring," with topics centered in exploration of global issues in distance and distributed learning. Matkin's paper, which addresses the opportunities and barriers associated with the Open Educational Resources (OER OER Office of Extramural Research (US NIH) OER Open Educational Resources OER Officer Evaluation Report OER Optimized Edge Routing OER Office of Energy Research OER Owners' Equivalent Rent OER Operating Expense Ratio ) Movement, is aimed at promoting further involvement of APRU member institutions. The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is designed to provide high quality teaching and learning resources for the express purpose of increasing educational achievement and sustaining social and economic development. Matkin will present his thoughts during Session 2 of the conference, on November 8. "OER has been inspired not only by the belief that it will advance human knowledge, creativity and social welfare," explains Matkin, "but also by the growing success of open source software. OER is based on the notion that knowledge and education are common goods that must be supported by a defined community." Dr. Gary W. Matkin is dean of continuing education and director of summer session at UC Irvine Extension. He earned his doctorate degree in education from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , where he also served as associate dean of continuing education from 1990 to 2000. The author of dozens of books, journal articles and presentations, Matkin is an active member of University Continuing Education Association, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and the Certified Financial Planners Education Task Force. 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