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Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM<br>
Subject: [Announce] FTA Announce #9: Associate Network expansion
& quick news<br>
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From the Free Knowledge Institute about the Free Technology
Academy<br>
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FTA Announcement #9: Expansion of the FTA Associate Network and
quick<br>
FTA News<br>
<br>
== Gleducar joins the FTA Associate Network ==<br>
<br>
We are happy to announce the joining of Gleducar into the FTA
network.<br>
Argentine non-profit organisation Gleducar has been working in the<br>
Free/Open Education field for almost ten years. It has built a
community<br>
with over 500 educators and learners and is one of the most
important<br>
educational initiatives of Latin America. Gleducar NGO will
contribute<br>
relevant feedback and review FTA Course materials. It will also<br>
participate in the development of future courses about open and
free<br>
educational tools for teachers.<br>
<br>
We plan to expand the FTA in Latin America through the
participation of<br>
the Gleducar community in our dissemination strategies. As an
official<br>
associated partner Gleducar members are encouraged to represent
and<br>
communicate the Free Technology Academy with the objective to grow
the<br>
network of participants in the community and partners in the
project.<br>
<br>
More information: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ftacademy.org/announce/gleducar" target="_blank">http://ftacademy.org/announce/gleducar</a><br>
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== P2P Foundation joins the FTA Associate Network ==<br>
<br>
The FTA is proud to announce the incorporation of the Foundation
for P2P<br>
Alternatives (P2P-F) to its Associate Network. The P2P-F is the<br>
organisation behind the most extensive research platform on peer<br>
production topics around the world.<br>
<br>
The P2P-F will contribute to the FTA in various ways, such as
providing<br>
Guest Lectures to FTA courses and communicating FTA news through
their<br>
networks. Feedback is expected on course materials, and advise and
help<br>
with improving the FTA curriculum. One particular joint project
the<br>
P2P-F will be working on together with the Free Knowledge
Institute is<br>
the development of a course on "Peer Production and Commons
Theory".<br>
This course will be developed following the peer production model
and<br>
will be open for contributions by peers and other organisations.
The<br>
resulting course will be hosted by the Free Technology Academy and
its<br>
partners.<br>
<br>
More information: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ftacademy.org/announce/p2pf" target="_blank">http://ftacademy.org/announce/p2pf</a><br>
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== FTA Quick news ==<br>
The Free Technology Academy keeps moving on and of course we are
working<br>
on the upcoming year's courses. The FTA 2011 campus activities
start in<br>
the second week of January 2011. For the first term, the following<br>
courses are scheduled:<br>
<br>
* The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards<br>
* GNU/Linux Basic<br>
* GNU/Linux Advanced<br>
* Free Software Utilities<br>
* Network Technologies<br>
* Web applications development<br>
* Software development<br>
* Implementation of Free Software and Case Studies<br>
<br>
We offer a 10% early bird discount for registrations up to 2
months<br>
before the scheduled start of the course. So don't wait any longer
and<br>
register!<br>
<br>
More information and the full 2011 programme:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme/2011"
target="_blank">http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme/2011</a><br>
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== About the Free Technology Academy ==<br>
<br>
A Consortium formed by the Open University of Catalonia (Spain),
the<br>
Open University of the Netherlands and the University of Agder
(Norway)<br>
and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), the FTA has
received the<br>
support from the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme to set up an<br>
international educational programme on Free Software. The courses
are<br>
taught completely online in a virtual campus based on the Campus
Project<br>
interoperability framework.<br>
<br>
Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning<br>
materials are freely available through the Internet. The use of
Free<br>
Software (also referred to as Open Source software or Libre
Software) is<br>
rapidly expanding in governmental and private organisations.
However,<br>
still only a limited number of ICT professionals, teachers and
decision<br>
makers have sufficient knowledge and expertise in these new
fields. The<br>
Free Technology Academy aims to address this gap by providing high
level<br>
courses that fit into larger Master Programmes at the
participating<br>
universities.<br>
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