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<p>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.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>De:</b> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Enviado:</b> martes, 14 de enero de 2020 15:48<br>
<b>Para:</b> Charles Schweik; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Geo4All] Fwd: gis: webinar: Implementing Open Geography Education</font>
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Hi Charlie,</div>
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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.</div>
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Best wishes,</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Charles Schweik <cschweik@umass.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 January 2020 14:17<br>
<b>To:</b> geoforall@lists.osgeo.org <geoforall@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Geo4All] Fwd: gis: webinar: Implementing Open Geography Education</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear GeoForAll colleagues:
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<div>This webinar looks relevant to our network and perhaps a connection needs to be made. -- Cheers, Charlie Schweik
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<h1 style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:15.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Webinar:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Lato; color:black">Distinguished Geospatial Speaker Series: Implementing Open Geography Education<u></u><u></u></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:15.0pt; margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black; font-weight:normal">Wednesday, Jan 15<sup>th</sup> 2-3pm
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/9446" target="_blank">https://www.directionsmag.com/webinar/9446</a> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt; background:white"><b><span style="font-family:Lato; color:black">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-family:Lato; color:black">:
</span><span style="font-family:Lato; color:#666666">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Lato; color:#666666">In this webinar you will:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Lato; color:#666666">Learn How the initiative began<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol; color:#666666"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Lato; color:#666666">See Examples of Textbooks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Lato; color:#666666">Explore implementation<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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