<div dir="ltr">Dear GeoForAll colleagues:<div><br></div><div>This webinar looks relevant to our network and perhaps a connection needs to be made. -- Cheers, Charlie Schweik<div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-8393559539333590582WordSection1">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Webinar: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:black">Distinguished Geospatial Speaker Series: Implementing Open Geography Education<u></u><u></u></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Wednesday, Jan 15^th 2-3pm
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/9446" target="_blank">https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/9446</a> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:Lato;color:black">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-family:Lato;color:black">:
</span><span style="font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Open Education Global (OEG), an international network for open education, recently announced Adam Dastrup, Professor of Geosciences at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), won OEG’s prestigious Open Geography
 award. In 2014, Adam Dastrup started the Open Geography Education initiative as a way to provide educators with OER textbooks to students. The philosophy of the initiative is to provide open resources, products and services to anybody interested in learning
 about the earth, its places and the relationships between people and their environments.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">In this webinar you will:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Learn How the initiative began<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">See Examples of Textbooks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Explore implementation<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in">*****************</h1></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Charlie Schweik<br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Professor, Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy<div>University of Massachusetts Amherst</div><div><br></div><div>Twitter: @cschweik</div><div>Facebook:  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/charles.schweik.9" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/charles.schweik.9</a></div><div>Web: <a href="https://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/" target="_blank">https://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/</a> </div></div></div></div></div>