[Geo4All] Fwd: gis: webinar: Implementing Open Geography Education

[Charles Schweik]

Dear GeoForAll colleagues:

This webinar looks relevant to our network and perhaps a connection needs
to be made. -- Cheers, Charlie Schweik
******************************************************** Webinar: Distinguished
Geospatial Speaker Series: Implementing Open Geography Education Wednesday,
Jan 15th 2-3pm

 https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/9446

*Abstract*: 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.

In this webinar you will:

·         Learn How the initiative began

·         See Examples of Textbooks

·         Explore implementation
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Charlie Schweik
Professor, Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Twitter: @cschweik
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/charles.schweik.9
Web: https://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/schweik-charles-m/
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