[Okfn-ca] Plea for a blog post on open education in Canada

Fri Dec 6 19:54:16 UTC 2013

Dear Marieke,

I response to your invitation through the list of the Open Knowledge 
Foundation local group in Canada because the Open Education is one of 
our two main interests. The other is about linking communities involved 
in Open Knowledge.

Particularly, we translate important texts  in French in the fields of 
free knowledge. Your Open education Handbook is this type of document of 
importance. If it is already translated, we adapt to the Quebec context 
and the North America.

We are planning the activities of translation for the coming months and 
we will contact you quickly

I'll subscribed to your mailing list and invite local group members to 
joint it also.

Best Regards,

Diane

Ambassadrice de l'Open Knowledge Foundation - Groupe local au Canada
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Jitsi : dianemercier
« Pas de données ouvertes, sans logiciel libre ni formats ouverts»

Le 2013-12-05 04:38, Marieke Guy a écrit :
> Dear Diane,
>
> I'd like to introduce myself to you. I'm Marieke Guy and I work for 
> theOpen Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org>on the EULinkedUp 
> Project <http://linkedup-project.eu>, "pushing forward the 
> exploitation of the vast amounts of public, open data available on the 
> Web, in particular by educational institutions and organizations".
>
> As the ambassador for Canada you'll know that the Open Knowledge 
> Foundation are a global movement to open up knowledge around the world 
> and see it used and useful. There has been huge amounts of activity 
> around government and economic data, and quite a bit around opening up 
> GLAM objects. Open education is a relatively new area for us, but it 
> aligns well with action around open development and sustainability.
>
> As part of our work we have set up the Open Knowledge FoundationOpen 
> Education Working Group <http://education.okfn.org>. The plan is bring 
> together people working in different areas of open education: OERs, 
> open data, policy, learning and teaching etc. to find overlaps. So for 
> example, those working with OERs are pretty interested in MOOCs, and 
> this potentially could be a key area of interest for open data 
> enthusiasts - this could lead to joint activities. The plan isn't to 
> replace any existing groups but to work with them.
>
> The Working Group is only just getting off the ground and a key 
> activity for me is building a community and getting know people 
> working in this area, not just in the UK but in Europe and beyond. One 
> of our first activities is theOpen Education Handbook 
> <http://education.okfn.org/handbook/>. We have also just started a 
> series looking at open education around the world and sharing stories 
> from different countries. We've now had 5 posts and it would be great 
> to run something on Canada. Robert Gregoire suggested that you might 
> be a good person to give an overview. Would you be interested in 
> writing something for us?
>
> It would also be fantastic to see you join our mailing list 
> <http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-education>and be involved 
> in some of the conversations we are starting to have.
>
> Look forward to working together in the future.
>
> Marieke
>
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