[OSGeo-Announce] "Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015" - Nominations till 28th Feb 2015

[Jorge Sanz]

Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015) is an annual opportunity to
raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and
learning worldwide. Open education encompasses resources, tools and
practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve
educational access and effectiveness. Participation in all events and
use of all resources are free and open to everyone.Details at
http://www.openeducationweek.org/

"Geo for All"  http://www.geoforall.org , will be strongly supporting
and participating in the Open Education Week 2015 and build synergies
with the training events, workshops, webinars etc planned.

We are pleased to welcome nominations for "Geo for All - Open
Education Award 2015". This is an opportunity for us to thank our
colleagues for the greatest contributions to Open Education principles
in the Geo domain. We greatly welcome nominations for educators who
have created GIS courses from different languages and regions in
developing and developed world. The nominator can send the summary
details in English along with the nomination which will help the
committee members to understand its impact.

We aim to announce the winner of the award during the Open Education
Week 2015 and the winner will be awarded at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe
"Open Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy . Details at
http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ The winner will also be receiving a
crystal momento from NASA ( see at
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ ) titled "Geo for All Educator of
the year". We are grateful to Patrick Hogan (NASA) for this and also
the excellent idea of this competition.

We will welcome nominations from everyone. Students, Colleagues or
wider public can nominate any educator who they believe has
contributed to Open Education in Geo domain .Anyone except those in
Award Committee listed at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_educatoroftheyear
are eligible for the award. Award Committee members are welcome to
nominate any others work they know that deserve nomination though all
members of the Award Committee themselves are not eligible .

Especially this is a great opportunity for students to nominate their
Teachers and Educators for their great service to Open Education
Principles building upon free and open software, open data, open
standards, open educational resources etc for the benefit of the wider
humanity. It can be short (Summer Schools, Trainer programs etc ) or
long (full semester) courses both online and class based. Please feel
free to pass this call to your students and colleagues.

Anyone who wish to nominate should send the details by email to
Professor Charlie Schweik - Committee Chair [email -
cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu] with the subject header - "Nomination for
Geo for All - Open Education Award 2015".

This should include the Course leader details with the url to the
course details (or attachment with the course details). Ideally if
there is website for the program it will be helpful. Please follow
this template for nomination. (Thanks to Antoni Pérez Navarro for
this).

*  Course Title in English
*  Language
*  Original title
*  Credits/Hours
*  Number of editions
*  Type: Virtual, face-to-face, blended
*  Target (professionals, technical students, primary school level,
secondary school level, university level ,embedded in a wider program,
etc.)
*  Average number of students per edition
*  Goal (maximum 150 words): what is the goal of this course in its
socio-economical context and why the course was created?
*  Contents
*  Links to course, materials, contents, etc.
*  License type

All applications should be received by 28th Feb 2015 before 12:00 GMT
to be considered for this award.

So please send your nominations to honour and recognise the educators
who made it possible and will be an inspiration to others to build
upon for future years. It will also acknowledge their excellent
contributions to open knowledge and being good global citizens by
helping spread the benefits of education to all. Central to "Geo for
All" mission is the belief that knowledge is a public good and Open
Principles in Education will provide great opportunities for everyone.

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Dr Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/