Re: [Masterlibre-list] Proposed agenda for the MoLOS meeting in Stuttgart

[Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:36 +0200, Janis Gailis wrote:
>    At Agder University College (AUC) there has been some development in
> the direction of offering master courses in floss related subjects. At
> fall 2005 a floss-related (practically oriented) course (10 ECTS units)
> in Content Management Systems (based on OSS eZPublish CMS, ez.no) will
> be offered. 

Good!

> 
>    There is also some progress in Bologna process related issues (as
> truly joint-degrees etc.) in the Norwegian higher-education system,
> since politicians are more and more interested in floss-related issues. 
> 
>    Anyway, it is more important to concentrate on using the courses in
> existing master or bachelor programs for the joint projects (through the
> floss development principles). There is interest for such an approach at
> the AUC and at the University in Oslo. 

For us at URJC, that is probably going to be difficult, although can be
explored.

> 
>    IMHO, some effort has to be put into design of international projects
> that can be used as real-life cases in educational situations. AUC works
> on a concrete project related to an Open Culture Management System with
> the main objective to develop a distributed system for cultural
> information (in arts, sports and education). Such a project can generate
> cases for floss projects and student involvement (across the countries)
> can be one of the main issues in this context. 

We could explore participating in this in the context of our current PhD
subject in libre software.

[...]

Saludos,

        Jesus.

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