[ELECTRON] Fwd: <edu-factory> Free Technology Academy: Website and course descriptions published

[Simon Yuill]

Soenke Zehle wrote:
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> From: Franco Iacomella <yaco at gnu.org>
> Date: 2009/10/27
> Subject: [unesco-oer] Free Technology Academy: Website and course
> descriptions published
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> FTA Announcement #2: Website and course descriptions published
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> 
> 1. Free Technology Academy website launched!
> 
> The Free Technology Academy (FTA) is proud to announce the official
> launch of its website. It's available at http://www.ftacademy.org. There
> you will find all the information related with the project, including news,
> next activities, press resources and many more. All the contents are
> released under a free Copyleft license, so feel free to share and reuse
> all the FTA materials.
> 
> 
> 2. FTA course programme published
> 
> The Free Technology Academy aims to establish a full educational
> programme on Free Software and Open Standards. This programme
> can be followed as a whole or only partially, and these studies can be
> expanded at one or more of the partner universities.
> 
> The first set of courses is finally available. At
> http://www.ftacademy.org/courses/modules you will find the description
> of each module included in the FTA master level programme.
> The current modules are:
> 1) The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards
> 2) The GNU/Linux Operating System
> 3) Network Technologies
> 4) Web applications development
> 5) Economical aspects of Free Software
> 6) Legal aspects of the Information Society
> 7) Software development
> 8) Case Studies
> 
> Each educational module in the FTA programme stands on its own and can
> be followed independently, provided that the learner has the required
> previous knowledge. Introductory courses require almost no previous
> knowledge, besides the basics necessary to access the FTA campus itself,
> while more advanced modules are meant for IT professionals seeking to
> acquire specific skills.
> 
> The materials of each course will be published in the next few months
> under a free content license. The registration for the first courses will be
> announced soon, so stay tuned!
> 
> 
> 3. Contact information
> 
> To know more about the FTA, visit the official site at
> http://www.ftacademy.org. To receive information on when registration
> will open exactly, keep an eye on the website or subscribe to the Announce
> list at http://announces.ftacademy.org. If you have questions, or you are
> interested to become a partner organisation in the FTA network, write us
> at contact (at) ftacademy.org
> 
> 
> 4. About the Free Technology Academy
> 
> A Consortium formed by the Open University of Catalonia (Spain) and the
> Open University of the Netherlands and led by the Free Knowledge
> Institute (FKI) has received the support from the EC's Lifelong
> Learning Programme
> to offer an international educational programme on Free Software. The
> courses will
> be taught completely online in a virtual campus based on the Campus Project
> interoperability framework.
> 
> Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning
> materials will be freely available through the Internet. The use of
> Free Software (also
> referred to as Open Source software or Libre Software) is expanding rapidly in
> governmental and private organisations. However, still only a limited
> number of IT
> 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.
> 
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