[p2p-research] FTA Announcement #11: Register Now, Guest Lectures, DocBook and New FTA Materials
Michel Bauwens
michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 09:20:00 CET 2011
:Dear Wouter,
thanks for this, VERY useful reply,
actually, for here in Chiang Mai, I was thinking more of mentoring than full
f2f teaching, so what you see is right on the mark,
credits is a little more difficult issue, since I think students in east
asia are still much more sensitive to this issue, you just don't get hired
here without the right papers (plus introductions <g>). For example, I can
teach post-graduate in Belgium based on my experience, but there, I am
confined to teaching 18 year olds, because they only want to see the PhD
additional request, do you know of any university in your network, who might
be interested in a physical extension in SE Asia, and thereby offer 'real
credits' to potential students here?
Michel
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Wouter Tebbens <wouter at freeknowledge.eu>wrote:
> Dear Michel,
>
> sorry for the belated reply; some traditional festivities and delayed work
> came in between. But: I wish you and all peers a good new year where freedom
> and solidarity get together again.
>
> Regarding your idea to run an educational curriculum based on the FTA, let
> me comment a few things. The FTA courses are designed for a online /
> distance education methodology mainly with course books and a series of
> group and individual activities under guidance of a university mentor. That
> said, the courses can be taught face2face as well, and some universities are
> doing that: they just download or link to the FTA course book(s) and work
> through them in a physical class room. Even with traditional lectures and
> slideshows if you want ;-)
>
> If you start running these courses f2f, it might be of interest for the
> global community to record and stream the lectures you might organise. We
> could then stream them through the FTA site as well.
>
> We'd also encourage you to make use of the FTA virtual campus: enrolled and
> free learners share case studies, bibliography, study projects etc etc
> through the various systems we have set up. Our idea is to facilitate the
> learning community as much as we can.
>
> Regarding credits: you can issue your own certificate and credits, but it
> will depend on their recognition to value how much these are worth to the
> participants. With the FTA we have choosen to work with universities who
> recognise FTA Certificates and the ECTS credits as used in Europe. That way
> learners can continue their education and obtain official degrees at those
> universities.
>
> Other forms of credits issued by peers might be very interesting and
> promising indeed. At Drumbeat Barcelona there was the badges project, see
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
>
> I think ultimately we will work towards a combination of both formal and
> informal credit systems (and feed the peer credit system into the formal
> instutions). But there is still some work to do.
>
> Looking forward to see how this fits best in your plans. We'll be happy to
> help you out as much as we can.
>
> best,
>
> Wouter
>
>
>
> On 12/26/2010 02:14 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>> Dear Wouter, Franco:
>>
>> this is something I have been contemplating lately i.e. the possibility
>> of a curriculum based on the FTA, given or mentored through the chiang
>> mai commons initiative, which would give credits to thai students ...
>>
>> what would it take to pull this off?
>>
>> MICHEL
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Franco Iacomella <yaco at gnu.org
>> <mailto:yaco at gnu.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Permanent link: http://ftacademy.org/announce/11
>>
>> FTA Announcement #11: Register Now, Guest Lectures, DocBook and New
>> FTA Materials
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 1. Last chance to register for the first term of 2011!
>> 2. Rey Juan Carlos University joins the FTA Associate Network
>> 3. Upcoming Guest Lectures at the FTA Campus
>> 4. FTA books in DocBook format
>> 5. New FTA materials published
>> 6. About the Free Technology Academy
>>
>>
>> == 1. Last chance to register for the first term of 2011! ==
>>
>> Registrations for the 2011 programme are growing at a very good
>> pace. Remember that you can register for any course of the programme
>> until one week before the term starts. This means that you have time
>> until January 3rd to register for these courses:
>>
>> * The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards
>> * Basic GNU/Linux
>> * Free Software Utilities
>> * Network Technologies
>> * Web applications development
>> * Software development
>> * Deployment of Free Software and Case Studies
>>
>> Don't leave it for the last minute! Register now at
>> https://ftacademy.org/registration-form
>>
>> Having trouble choosing only a couple of courses? Keep in mind that
>> many of them are also offered later in the year:
>> http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme
>>
>> If you're still in doubt, contact us at registrations at ftacademy.org
>> <mailto:registrations at ftacademy.org> and we'll help you create your
>>
>> own programme!
>>
>> == 2. Rey Juan Carlos University joins the FTA Associate Network ==
>>
>> The FTA is proud to announce the incorporation of the University Rey
>> Juan Carlos (Spain) to its Associate Partner Network, through the
>> participation of the LibreSoft research group.
>>
>> LibreSoft offers a programme on Free Software that leads to an
>> official Master Degree by the URJC. The LibreSoft group will
>> contribute courses such as Quality Assessment of Free Software, one
>> of its main research topics, to the FTA programme. Apart from that,
>> the LibreSoft group is involved in the taskforce for an
>> International Master Programme in Free Software since the start,
>> where FTA partners cooperate to design a common curriculum.
>>
>> Read the official announcement here:
>> http://ftacademy.org/announce/URJC
>>
>> == 3. Upcoming Guest Lectures at the FTA Campus ==
>>
>> FTA Guest Lectures are open to all: the videos will be published
>> online and a forum will be available for those who want to discuss
>> it with the lecturer. The FTA will welcome the new year with two
>> first-class guest lecturers: Richard M. Stallman and Benjamin Mako
>> Hill.
>>
>> Richard M. Stallman is a Free Software developer and activist. He is
>> the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. He
>> started the Free Software movement and is arguably one of the most
>> influential advocates of Free Software worldwide. In his lecture,
>> Stallman will focus on the most recent attacks to users' freedoms,
>> such as ACTA and DRM. This Guest Lecture will take place in February.
>>
>> Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker, intellectual property
>> researcher, activist and author. He is a free software developer and
>> contributes to the Debian and Ubuntu projects. He's also the author
>> of two best-selling technical books on the subject. He currently
>> serves as a member of the Free Software Foundation board of
>> directors and of Wikimedia Foundation's board. Hill has a Masters
>> degree from the MIT Media Lab and is currently a Senior Researcher
>> at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he studies free software
>> communities and business models. His lecture, entitled,
>> "Antifeatures", will take place in January 2011, stay tuned for the
>> concrete dates!
>>
>> == 4. FTA books in DocBook format ==
>>
>> Until now, FTA coursebooks have been available in PDF format only.
>> This allows everyone to easily read and print them, but it has not
>> been easy to edit or remix the materials. Now FTA coursebooks are
>> also available in the DocBook format: a semantic markup language for
>> technical documentation. DocBook enables users to create documents
>> in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure
>> of the content, which can then be published in a variety of formats,
>> including HTML, XHTML, EPUB, PDF, man pages, and others - without
>> requiring users to make any changes to the source.
>>
>> We expect that this new possibility will be exploited by the FTA
>> community. We hope that new creations take place, thereby
>> materializing the opportunities offered by the copyleft licenses
>> applied to the original course books. We invite you to discuss all
>> the possibilities in our community space:
>> http://campus.ftacademy.org/community/
>>
>> == 5. New FTA materials published ==
>>
>> The FTA is proud to announce the availability of three new
>> coursebooks, all under a free Copyleft license: GNU/Linux Basic,
>> Implementation of Free Software Systems and the coursebook for Free
>> Software Tools and Utilities.
>>
>> "GNU/Linux Basic" will be taught in all three terms of 2011. The aim
>> of this book is to initiate you into the world of GNU/Linux. It
>> covers the basics of the free software, how to use and modify
>> GNU/Linux to suit your needs, and how to find your way in this new
>> world more easily. The book is not based on any particular
>> distribution, but we need to specify certain actions for most of the
>> examples and activities, for which we will use Debian GNU/Linux.
>> Although this distribution is not as intuitive and user-friendly as
>> others, it will serve to explain all the characteristics of a
>> GNU/Linux-based operating system, step by step.
>>
>> You can get a copy of the course book, written by Joaquín López
>> Sánchez-Montañés, Sofia Belles Ramos, Roger Baig Viñas and Francesc
>> Aulí Llinàs, here: http://ftacademy.org/materials/fsm/13#1
>>
>> "Implementation of Free Software Systems" was written by Amadeu
>> Albós Raya and Óscar David Sánchez Jiménez. This course book
>> examines the deployment of Free Software systems. The reader will
>> become familiar with agencies and projects related to the deployment
>> of Free Software in the public and private sectors, and will learn
>> to identify and understand the consequences of the use and
>> exploitation of Free Software in different areas. Several case
>> studies will be released soon as complementary materials. The FTA
>> course "Deployment of Free Software Systems" is scheduled for the
>> first and third terms of 2011.
>>
>> You can get a copy of the course book here:
>> http://ftacademy.org/materials/fsm/8#1
>>
>> The course book "Tools and utilities in free software", written by
>> Jesús Corrius i Llavina, is part of the course "Free Software Tools
>> and Utilities". The students are introduced to some of the programs
>> designed for desktop environments of end users. These programs allow
>> users to browse the Internet securely (Mozilla), manage e-mail and
>> work in groups (Evolution) and create text documents, spreadsheets
>> and presentations (OpenOffice.org). In this course, students will
>> also discover how to work with these free tools in different
>> environments. "Free Software Tools and Utilities" will also be
>> taught in all three terms of 2011.
>>
>> Download a copy here: http://ftacademy.org/materials/fsm/10#1
>>
>> Register for these courses here:
>> http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme/2011
>>
>> == 6. About the Free Technology Academy ==
>>
>> A Consortium formed by the Open University of Catalonia (Spain), the
>> Open University of the Netherlands and the University of Agder
>> (Norway) and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), the FTA has
>> received the support from the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme to
>> set up an international educational programme on Free Software. The
>> courses are taught completely online in a virtual campus based on
>> the Campus Project interoperability framework.
>>
>> Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning
>> materials are freely available through the Internet. The use of Free
>> Software (also referred to as Open Source software or Libre
>> Software) is rapidly expanding in governmental and private
>> organisations. However, still only a limited number of ICT
>> professionals, teachers and decision makers have sufficient
>> knowledge and expertise in these new fields. The Free Technology
>> Academy aims to address this gap by providing high level courses
>> that fit into larger Master Programmes at the participating
>> universities.
>>
>> * More information: http://www.ftacademy.org
>> * Contact information: contact[at]ftacademy.org <http://ftacademy.org>
>>
>> * Digital version: http://ftacademy.eu/announce/10
>>
>>
>> Free Technology Academy Newsletter
>> http://www.ftacademy.eu
>>
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