Open Summit attendees will help higher ed learn to share | Opensource.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-06

Summary:

" ... With all these conversations happening amongst many disparate groups of stakeholders, the Open Source Initiative and the Apereo Foundation both saw an opportunity to break down silos and bring everyone together to collaborate, share lessons learned, and form stronger bonds to advance open in education. The first step is the upcoming Open Summit in New York City, a one-day event taking place May 23 at New York University. Amongst the many excellent topics on offer to attendees, we are proud to welcome Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst as our keynote speaker. He'll discuss many of the principles for collaboration he's laid out in his recent book, The Open Organization, and show how these principles can be most successfully applied in the context of academia, from the classroom to the IT department. To learn more about the event, its history, and how open source aficionados in academia (and beyond) should be involved, we spoke with its lead organizers, Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation, and Patrick Masson, General Manager of the Open Source Initiative. Here's what they had to say ..."

Link:

https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/4/open-summit-higher-ed-conference

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oa.new oa.events oa.education oa.floss oa.moocs oa.oer oa.interviews oa.courseware oa.people

Date tagged:

04/06/2016, 10:01

Date published:

04/06/2016, 06:01