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

Mon Dec 9 11:28:18 UTC 2013

Great to hear from you Diane,

I think Robert Gregoire is also interested in translation - so it might 
be worth co-ordinating with him on planned activity.

If you do get time to write a blog post on open education in Canada - 
maybe in the new year - then please do send it over.

Thanks

Marieke

On 06/12/2013 19:54, Diane Mercier wrote:
> 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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>
> 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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