[Ica-osgeo-labs] Happy Open Education Week 2014

[Suchith Anand]

Dear All,

ELOGeo initiative is happy to support and be part of the Open Education Week 2014 (March 10-15) celebrations with both online and locally hosted events around the world. Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free and open to everyone. Details at http://www.openeducationweek.org/the-elogeo-repository/

We started ELOGeo with the aim to make geospatial science education available to everyone globally who wish to learn this. Till recently, geospatial science education was beyond the reach of  financially poor students of our planet because of the high cost of the proprietary GI vendor software and non availability of good quality free education materials. We hope  we can make a small step in helping  widen geospatial education opportunities to all. We are extremely pleased that within two years since the launch of ELOGeo from very humble beginnings  , it has now become the defacto Open Access Educational Platform for  Geospatial  thanks to the strong support of geospatial community worldwide. ELOGeo is now used from Stanford University to universities in Africa.

So let me take Open Education Week to thank all the contributors, users and funders (JISC) of ELOGeo and also our colleagues Amir, Jeremy, Adam, Mike and also colleagues at MIMAS without whom we would not have made this possible.

Best wishes,

Suchith
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