[Open-education] Open Education at OKFestival

Fri Mar 14 12:14:10 UTC 2014

Dear All,

I have just heard that the deadline for proposals will be extended to 
*midnight GMT Sunday 30th March.

*This gives you more time in which to write really excellent open 
education proposals!

If you want to chat with others who are developing sessions then the 
OKFestival team have set up a mailing list 
<https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfestival-discuss> you can join.

Look forward to catching up with you in Berlin!

Marieke
*
*On 05/03/2014 10:11, Marieke Guy wrote:
> 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
>
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