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

[SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA]

Sorry for the delay answering this. ¿Did anybody try connecting this initiative? I know the times aren't the best for it but maybe we can keep this thread alive.

Thanks,


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
________________________________
De: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Enviado: martes, 14 de enero de 2020 15:48
Para: Charles Schweik; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: Re: [Geo4All] Fwd: gis: webinar: Implementing Open Geography Education

Hi Charlie,

Thank you for sharing this. We should connect and support this and all initiatives supporting open education ideas and principles. Great to see the momentum building up for Open Education.

Best wishes,

Suchith


________________________________
From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Charles Schweik <cschweik at umass.edu>
Sent: 14 January 2020 14:17
To: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Geo4All] Fwd: gis: webinar: Implementing Open Geography Education

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

*****************

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/


This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
and may contain confidential information. If you have received this
message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and
attachment.

Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not
necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email
communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored
where permitted by law.




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/attachments/20200327/807828d2/attachment.html>