ANNUAL REPORT 2012 - Dyslexia International
ANNUAL REPORT 2012 - Dyslexia International
ANNUAL REPORT 2012 - Dyslexia International
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Letter from<br />
the Chair<br />
education authorities and a ‘Country by Country<br />
Contacts Directory’ for guidance to local ministries,<br />
universities and associations in over 190 countries.<br />
Following the Congress we warmly welcomed<br />
experts in OER Neil Butcher and Professor Ken<br />
Harley who accepted to join our Open Educational<br />
Resources Advisory Panel, and Professor Diane<br />
Laurillard of London University, a member of the<br />
Management Committee of the UNESCO Institute<br />
for Information Technology in Education. Their<br />
guidance has been invaluable.<br />
Our plans are to ensure that our new OER site is<br />
regularly updated and replenished systematically<br />
by our consultants and research assistants with the<br />
support of our associate universities. To formalize<br />
this system we are working towards setting up a<br />
consortium of universities, one in each of the official<br />
languages of UNESCO – Arabic, Chinese, English,<br />
French, Russian and Spanish. This would become<br />
fully operational in 2014 by which time we will have<br />
submitted a formal application to the ‘UNESCO<br />
UNITWIN’ programme for a four-year research<br />
programme, chaired by a lead university in online<br />
teacher training, literacy and inclusion. The research,<br />
involvement at all levels and outcomes will be<br />
recorded on the e-Campus.<br />
32m<br />
‘Some 32 million U.S. adults lack basic prose<br />
literacy skills. That means they can’t read<br />
a newspaper or the instruction on a bottle<br />
of pills.’ – U.S. Education Department,<br />
January 2009<br />
20 %<br />
‘One fifth of school-leavers are so illiterate<br />
and innumerate that they struggle to cope<br />
with challenges of everyday life.’ – U.K.<br />
The Guardian, 7 May 2010<br />
The way forward<br />
We now greatly look forward to working with the<br />
Coursera team of Stanford University, USA, who<br />
have agreed to collaborate with us on a new version<br />
of the online course. The challenge is to make<br />
this available as part of Stanford’s Professional<br />
Development program for teachers in May 2013,<br />
either through our own team or with a Coursera<br />
partner university.<br />
7/18 <strong>Dyslexia</strong> <strong>International</strong> Annual Report <strong>2012</strong>