Free and Open Education: FLOSSCom Virtual & On-Campus Summer University

What	open-educational-resources, oer, learning, education, open-content, coomunities of practice Social Event open-education, opensource, open-source, free-education,
When	Jul 03, 2007 12:00 AM to Sep 30, 2007 09:00 PM
Where	Virtual & On-Campus (see website),
Contact Name	Andreas Meiszner
Contact Email	A.Meiszner
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The European Union funded FLOSSCom research project is investigating Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities as learning environments. The project aims to identify principles of FLOSS communities that could be transferred to educational settings, e.g. how the community model could help to improve education. The project will run a ‘Virtual and On-Campus Summer University’ starting at the 3rd of July. The Summer University is a 12 week open access session with the objective of developing a toolkit on ‘Learning the Open Source Way’ The summer university will be conducted as a joint event bringing in as a “special guest” the Ubuntu community – The world’s famous Linux distribution with a community of 320.000 enthusiasts! We especially encourage students to take the chance and engage with experts throughout the globe. We ask everyone to feel free to bring in their knowledge, thoughts and energy, without any fees or enrolment criteria. The invitation is open to learners who have no, little or a great deal of experience with FLOSS communities.

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