[Open-education] R: introduction

Thu Sep 19 15:51:13 UTC 2013

Great to hear from you both!! Let's have more introductions ;-)

I'm Marieke Guy and I work for the Open Knowledge Foundation 
<http://okfn.org> on the LinkedUp project <http://linkedup-project.eu>. 
LinkedUp is encouraging release and use of public, open data on the Web, 
in particular by educational institutions and organisations. We are 
doing this through a series of three prototype development competitions 
called the LinkedUp Challenge <http://linkedup-challenge.org>. We've 
just announced the winners 
<http://linkedup-project.eu/2013/09/17/veni-competition-winners/> of our 
first competition (Veni) and they demonstrate some amazing ways of using 
the open data out there for teaching and learning.

As part of the sustainability of the project we have established the 
Open Education Working Group <http://education.okfn.org> - which was 
officially launched on Tuesday 
<http://education.okfn.org/launch-of-open-education-working-group/>!

Through the Group we want to build a global community around open 
education. We want to bring together the pockets of activity that are 
happening (so please let us know about your projects!) and the people 
that are working on this area. We also want to enable this new community 
to begin to work on global, cross-sectoral initiatives that consider all 
aspects of open education - from OERs and data, to changes in learning 
practice, policy and culture.

It's going to be a big task and we're going to need some help!

Hope to hear from more of you soon.

Marieke

On 17/09/2013 15:58, agatalotauro at libero.it wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I'd like to introduce myself, as I signed up recently for this list, 
> too. My name is Agata Lo Tauro, I work in Italy for Galileo Galilei 
> (Liceo Scientifico, Catania - www.miur.it) and I collaborate with ETEE 
> (http://www.etee.org.uk/) and AVSI 
> (http://www.avsi-usa.org/publications.html) where much of our recent 
> works focuses on openness, open education in particular, and novel 
> implementations under multilingual education and subsidiarity 
> <http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/glossary/subsidiarity_en.htm>.
>
> You can find my resumè in OKFN web site and a CV in Linkedln.
>
> My Institution is developing projects under the Comenius Programme.
>
> Interesting projects.
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/European_OER_Policy_Project
>
>
>       Open Sustainability, Open Education
>       <https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.okfn.org%2F2013%2F09%2F06%2Fworking-group-stories-public-domain-open-sustainability-open-education%2F&ei=O204UsmWM5HA7AbIhoCgDQ&usg=AFQjCNGTSCR2cm6r_kYDcpCn-ZcV78IE_g&bvm=bv.52164340,d.bGE>
>
> blog.okfn.org/.../working-group-stories-public-do
>
> It seems, after reading the blog posts on the OKFN booksprint, the 
> handbook concept, and your web-sites that we will be doing similar 
> things in the coming months, too. I hope that there will soon be a 
> chance to meet, and maybe even do something together.
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> best regards
> Agata
>
> ________________
> Prof. Agata Lo Tauro
> MIUR
> MAs, MPhil, PhD
>
>
>     atarkowski at centrumcyfrowe.pl
>     wrote on 17-set-2013 14.54
>     A: <open-education at lists.okfn.org>
>     Ogg: [Open-education] introduction
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I'd like to introduce myself, as I signed up recently for this
>     list. My name is Alek Tarkowski, I work in Poland for at an NGO
>     called Centrum Cyfrowe, where much of our work focuses on
>     openness, open education in particular, and copyright reform
>     issues. I am also Public Lead of Creative Commons Poland.
>
>     I would also like to point you to a new Creative Commons project
>     that I am leading, which is the "Open Educational Resources Policy
>     for Europe" project. As the title implies, the project has a
>     strong focus on promoting an open policy for publicly funded
>     educational resources, and a European scope. You can read a bit
>     more about it on the CC wiki:
>     http://wiki.creativecommons.org/European_OER_Policy_Project
>
>     I am sorry that I cannot make it to OKCon for the launch of the
>     OKFN Education Group. We had a project workshop just this weekend,
>     at the German OERde13 conference
>     (http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/OERde13).
>     It seems, after reading the blog posts on the OKFN booksprint and
>     the handbook concept, that we will be doing similar things in the
>     coming months. I hope that there will soon be a chance to meet,
>     and maybe even do something together.
>
>     All the best,
>
>     Alek Tarkowski
>
>
>     --
>     Alek Tarkowski
>     dyrektor, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
>     Twitter: @atarkowski
>     WWW: centrumcyfrowe.pl
>
>     polecam:
>     kulturaponadprawem.pl /
>     creativecommons.pl / otwartezabytki.pl / otwartengo.pl
>     / otwartezasoby.pl / conasuwiera.pl
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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