[Portugal] Be part of Openness in Geoeducation

[Artur Gil]

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De: Suchith Anand
Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 23 de Janeiro de 2015 18:55
Assunto: Be part of Openness in Geoeducation

Dear all,

On behalf of "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org   we are pleased
to invite you to join our efforts in creating Openness in
GeoEducation.

You are invited to register and participate in free course on
"Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS" . Over 1000
students have already registered for the next course starting Feb 23-
Mar 29, 2015 being run by GeoAcademy. Register at
https://www.canvas.net/browse/delmarcollege/courses/cn-1681-intro-qgis

For Educators, please note that the curriculum (lecture materials,
tutorials etc) is also free for you to share and share alike under the
Creative Commons BY 3.0 license.  Please find all the materials at
Github repository  https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy

For universities and educators it is an excellent opportunity to build
your own Geospatial courses using Free and Open Source Geospatial
Software.  OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org software and technologies are
the major contributor for the global geospatial economy and used by
hundreds of thousands of users in academia, governments and business
worldwide and rapidly increasing.

GeoAcademy https://foss4geo.wordpress.com   and OSGeo Live
http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html are going to be the two key
instruments that "Geo for All"  http://www.geoforall.org will be using
to accelerate Openness in Geoeducation worldwide and the International
Map Year 2015 (lead by the International Cartographic Association and
supported by the United Nations)  http://internationalmapyear.org is
the opportunity we will be using to implement this action.

GeoAcademy  will not only  expand geospatial education opportunities
to thousands of students but more importantly by making all the
lectures, tutorials  available in Github  under Creative Commons
licence    https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy enables other educators
globally to build up their own teaching  resources to suit their
requirements.

Creating openness in Geo Education is important for developing
creative and open minds in students which is critical for building
open innovation and contributes to building up Open Knowledge for the
benefit of the whole society and for our future generations.

We look forward to your participation for Openness in Geoeducation
worldwide and successful International Map Year activities.

Best wishes,

Suchith