[Open-education] Open Education at OKFest

Wed Mar 5 10:11:14 UTC 2014

Dear All,

I'm sure many of you will know that OKFest <http://2014.okfestival.org>, 
the Open Knowledge Festival, will take place in Berlin, July 15th - 
17th. It's going to be a great event and I hope that many of you will be 
able to participate in some way.

The OKFest team have designed the festival around three themes 
<http://2014.okfestival.org/programme/narrative-and-streams/>: 
Knowledge, tools and society. This is an attempt to avoid having too 
many streams that focus on just one area. It will also 'mix it up' a 
little. So the idea is to have open education sessions in every stream. 
For example, sessions on OERs in Knowledge, open source educational tech 
in Tools and open education/access to education issues in society. They 
are hoping that by breaking down the topic silos there will be more 
cross-domain collaboration - which is a good thing!

We have also been discussing having a separate open education fringe 
event - though there is still some thinking going on behind this and it 
may not happen. I will share any new information as soon as possible.

So, the closing date for proposals is *16th March*, which doesn't leave 
us too much time!

A small number of us are working on an Open Education Working group 
proposal, our first official session as a group, if we get it drafted 
soon we may be able to share more widely.

Hopefully lots of you are also working on proposals individually related 
to your specific activities or areas of interest.

It would be great to hear more about ideas on the mailing list, or at 
the working group call next week 
<http://education.okfn.org/2nd-working-group-call/> - OKFest is down as 
an agenda item.

Look forward to catching up with lots of you at OKFest!

Marieke

-- 

Marieke Guy
LinkedUp <http://linkedup-project.eu/> Project Community Coordinator | 
skype: mariekeguy | tel: 44 (0) 1285 885681 | @mariekeguy 
<http://twitter.com/mariekeguy>
The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
/Empowering through Open Knowledge/
http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/okfn>| OKF on Facebook 
<%3Fhttps://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork%3F> | Blog 
<%3Fhttp://blog.okfn.org%3F> | Newsletter 
<%3Fhttp://okfn.org/about/newsletter/%3F>
http://remoteworker.wordpress.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-education/attachments/20140305/b4c73581/attachment-0002.html>