[Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015): Call for Participation - Spread the News and Participate

Fri Feb 6 12:37:05 PST 2015

Great ideas. ..
I'm traveling and don't have easy Internet access but we should probably
get an OSgeo wiki page for these ideas... can anyone start it?
Cheers, Charlie

Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse typos...
On Feb 6, 2015 3:20 PM, "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
wrote:

> Suchith,
>
> How about an award for the best GIS course! Teachers need GIS love too!
>
> 1. This can be the complete syllabus for the class, as open source! This
> would allow other teachers to benefit and improve the course (still open
> source). The next year's award might go to who has improved that course the
> most! This is the beauty of open source, we continually rise to
> collectively-stand on each other's shoulders. And ^all^ of our students are
> the beneficiaries.
>
> 2. And maybe another category for best ^online^ GIS course (open source of
> course).
>
> 3. And maybe an award for the best student-produced GIS app (open source).
> To make this a more reasonable exercise for the 'judges,' each GIS teacher
> would be able to submit just one of their student-team's projects, or maybe
> one for each class taught. That would help improve and narrow the field of
> candidates.
>
> -Patrick
>  (650) 604-5656 (office)
>  (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 4:08 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015): Call for
> Participation - Spread the News and Participate
>
> OSGeo Colleagues,
>
> I would like to get your ideas on how we can contribute to Open Education
> Week (9-13 March 2015) activities to further accelerate Openness in
> GeoEducation. See details below.
>
> If any of your universities are arranging local events coinciding with
> Open Education week, it will be great to build upon synergies. We will be
> arranging the March webinar of "Open Geospatial Science & Applications "
> webinar series on that week also.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: open-education [open-education-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
> Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 11:59 AM
> To: Igor Lesko; open-education at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [Open-education] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015): Call
> for Participation - Spread the News and Participate
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> On behalf of "Geo for All"   http://www.geoforall.org/ we will actively
> support and participate in Open Education Week. I will inform all our
> colleagues on this and see if we can build synergies with the training
> events/workshops/webinars planned   http://www.geoforall.org/training/
> on this week.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: open-education [open-education-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
> Igor Lesko [igorlesko at oeconsortium.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 11:48 AM
> To: open-education at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [Open-education] Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015): Call for
> Participation - Spread the News and Participate
>
> Dear All
>
> We would like to make you aware of the upcoming Open Education Week (9-13
> March 2015).
>
> Please spread the news in your networks and participate in this important
> event.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Open Education Week 9-13 March 2015
>
> Call for participation:
> http://www.openeducationweek.org/call-for-participation/
>
> Open Education Week 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.
>
> The Open Education Week Organizing Committee invites your contributions to
> and participation in the annual Open Education Week, featuring online and
> in-person events around the world.
>
> There are many ways to contribute:
>
> 1. Submit a how-to video, inspirational talk, showcase of your open
> education project, or message about the impact of open education for your
> students or institution 2. Send links to resources that you find
> particularly helpful 3. Host an in-person event in your community or on
> your campus 4. Run a workshop on open education (a workshop toolkit will be
> available to support you) 5. Offer a webinar 6. Coordinate with other
> organizations focused on open to broaden the scope of awareness raising 7.
> Hold a discussion on an aspect of open education on the website's
> discussion forum 8. Promote open education week to your communities, on
> your website and through social media using #openeducationwk 9. Link your
> blog postings to the open education week website
>
> Web banners, posters, slide templates and other promotional materials are
> available on the Open Education Week Website www.openeducationweek.org<
> http://www.openeducationweek.org/>.
> Open Education Week is coordinated by the Open Education Consortium.
>
> Please let us know how you'll be participating by 15 Feb 2015 so we can
> get the website ready.
>
> We look forward to your participation!  Please contact us at
> info at openeducationweek.org<mailto:info at openeducationweek.org> if you have
> any questions, suggestions or feedback.
>
> Looking forward to another successful Open Education Week!
> --
> Igor Lesko
> Operations Manager & Open Education Specialist Open Education Consortium
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