Free knowledge, free technology

By John Moravec | 2/11/2008 | Filed under: General

To be held in Barcelona from July 15 – 17, 2008:

The Free Knowledge & Free Technology (FKFT) Conference, organised by the Open University of Catalonia and the SELF Consortium, is the first international event focused on the production and sharing of free educational and lifelong learning materials on free software and open standards.

The organizers invite papers on the following topics:

Introduction to Free Software and Open Standards, Operating systems, Office tools, Educational tools, ERP, VoIP, and others
Technological aspects of e-learning
Legal aspects of free technologies and open standards
Quality assessment in collaborative authoring systems
Business models based on free software
Learning standards
Free software in society

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About John Moravec

Dr. John Moravec is a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. He is the principal of Education Futures LLC; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; and is the editor of Education Futures. He can be emailed at john@educationfutures.com.

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