[OSGeo-Announce] Be part of Openness in Geoeducation

[Jorge Sanz]

On behalf of "Geo for All" we are pleased to invite you to join our
efforts in creating Openness in GeoEducation.

You are invited to register and participate in free course on
"Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS" . Over 1000
students have already registered for the next course starting Feb 23-
Mar 29, 2015 being run by GeoAcademy. Register at [1].

For Educators, please note that the curriculum (lecture materials,
tutorials etc) is also free for you to share and share alike under the
Creative Commons BY 3.0 license. Please find all the materials at
Github repository[2].

For universities and educators it is an excellent opportunity to build
your own Geospatial courses using Free and Open Source Geospatial
Software. OSGeo[3] software and technologies are the major contributor
for the global geospatial economy and used by hundreds of thousands of
users in academia, governments and business worldwide and rapidly
increasing.

GeoAcademy[4] and OSGeo Live[5] are going to be the two key
instruments that "Geo for All"[6] will be using to accelerate Openness
in Geoeducation worldwide and the International Map Year 2015[7] (lead
by the International Cartographic Association and supported by the
United Nations) is the opportunity we will be using to implement this
action.

GeoAcademy will not only expand geospatial education opportunities to
thousands of students but more importantly by making all the lectures,
tutorials[8] available in Github under Creative Commons licence
enables other educators globally to build up their own teaching
resources to suit their requirements.

Creating openness in Geo Education is important for developing
creative and open minds in students which is critical for building
open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the
benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.

We look forward to your participation for Openness in Geoeducation
worldwide and successful International Map Year activities.

[1] https://www.canvas.net/browse/delmarcollege/courses/cn-1681-intro-qgis
[2] https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy
[3] http://www.osgeo.org
[4] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com
[5] http://live.osgeo.org
[6] http://www.geoforall.org
[7] http://internationalmapyear.org
[8] https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy