Here's another keynote suggestion along the open education path...
Rufus Pollok of the Open Knowledge Foundation. I've never heard him talk,
although I have sat on a panel with him some 5 years or so ago. He was just
starting up the foundational t this time and was certainly eloquent, well
reasone
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Ian Boston wrote:
> ...Both Ross and I know through experience that Academia is a brutal
> place where every thought and concept is fought over purely because it
> exists, not because there is any value in it...
If you replace "thought" with "line of code" that's
On 16 January 2014 17:51, Ross Gardler wrote:
> As someone who has worked in the educational sector I would urge caution on
> this topic. It is highly charged and very divisive (which, with the right
> content and speaker makes for a great Keynote)
Also worked for 10 years in the Higher Ed in jus
As someone who has worked in the educational sector I would urge caution on
this topic. It is highly charged and very divisive (which, with the right
content and speaker makes for a great Keynote)
I think it is a great topic, but if this is selected I hope we ensure the
content is about he opportu
Hello Bertrand,
On 15 Jan 2014, at 9:21 , Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Marcel Offermans
> wrote:
>> ... The keynote is not technical, but instead focusses on how this platform
>> helps improve the way we teach our children...
>
> I like that - for me the best k
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Marcel Offermans
wrote:
>... The keynote is not technical, but instead focusses on how this platform
> helps improve the way we teach our children...
I like that - for me the best keynotes are not directly about what we
do, but help put it in perspective. Loo
Hello Alex,
Of course. Not all of the information is already available in english, but here
you go:
http://www.pulseon.nl/site/en/
If you want to see the application in action, the following (dutch) screencast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzm_Ow9XL5Y
In theory, you can turn on captions and
Marcel, would you mind sharing with some URL about the project so we
are on the same page?
On 1/14/14, Marcel Offermans wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> Amdatu itself is not an educational platform, it is a generic cloud platform
> for creating modular web applications. I would argue that modularity is a
Hello Alex,
Amdatu itself is not an educational platform, it is a generic cloud platform
for creating modular web applications. I would argue that modularity is a
quality that will help you build applications in general (and it's nothing new
either). PulseOn is built on top of the Amdatu projec
Hi,
I wonder if one of the leading lights in the MOOC[1] world could be
persuaded to give a keynote. Most lecture for a living so are good at
entertaining and I know some of the initiatives wouldn't exist without
Apache.
Examples of orgs:
https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.coursera.org/about/te
I'm involved in different local educational initiatives. I have read
through Amdatu main concept on the web site and may humbly notice that
teachers / educational gurus rarely consider modularity as a main
requirement for digital education. I wonder if there is some data on
Amdatu reception in Neth
I would like to propose another idea for a keynote at ApacheCon, given by
Jurriaan Souer who works at PulseOn:
PulseOn is a cloud based web application, built on open source technologies,
many of which originating from Apache, that provides students with a
personalized, lifelong learning enviro
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