[Open-education] 2nd Open Education Booksprint, 22 November, Berlin

Thu Oct 24 14:22:03 UTC 2013

Dear All,

The Open Knowledge Foundation as part of the LinkedUp Project 
<http://linkedup-project.eu/>and on behalf of the Open Education Working 
Group will be hosting our second Open Education Handbook booksprint and 
we'd really like you to participate.
http://education.okfn.org/second-open-education-handbook-booksprint/

We have already held an initial event 
<http://education.okfn.org/open-education-handbook-booksprint/> pulling 
together some ideas for the handbook and beginning to structure content. 
This second event will consider the questions the audience of the 
handbook will ask and whether what we have so far truly answers those 
questions. So for example: what are the real benefits of creating an 
Open Educational Resource (OER)?  How can data about open education lead 
to changes in open education policy? Where have open badges been used 
effectively? ...

Note that the handbook and the booksprint will be in English, though we 
are very interested in collaborating with people who would like to 
translate the handbook.

This second booksprint is a one-day (10am - 4pm) event to be held at the 
Wikimedia Deutschland office <http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite>, 
Berlin on Friday 22nd November 2013. During the booksprint participants 
will be involved in group discussions, constructing questions, agreeing 
on chapter themes, negotiating with others on concepts and hopefully 
coming up with some agreement on basic definitions!

Note that most booksprints aim to write a book in under 5 days! We'll be 
taking a slightly less pressurised approach and will be drafting the 
handbook over a longer time period of time (delivering a final version 
next year). The handbook is also one of the first activities of the Open 
Education Working Group <http://education.okfn.org/>.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

If you are interested in being involved in this important initiation 
event then please register on the EventBrite page: 
https://openeducationbooksprint2.eventbrite.co.uk- If you know of any 
people working in open education who would be interested in attending 
then please forward this message on. Note that all those who take part 
in the handbook booksprints will given attribution (using names and 
affiliations) in the about section of the handbook.

I look forward to seeing you at the booksprint.

Thanks

Marieke

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