Open Educational Symposium

The Open Educational Symposium is for industry and academic professionals who are interested and engaged in teaching OSS development methodologies. Teachers from academia and industry are invited for a whole day to discuss their needs and ideas into training plans and courses. The Open Educational Symposium emphasizes the sharing of experiences in various ways, for example via invited talks by professionals on the leading edge of the technology, lively and engaging sessions, presentations of papers, techniques and posters, and further possibilities for exchanging ideas.

Schedule
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General session (refereed papers)

- "Experiences teaching a graduate course in Open Source Software
Engineering", Daniel M. German - [slides]

- "Open Source and IMS Learning Design: Building the Infrastructure
for eLearning", David Griffiths, Josep Blat, Raymond Elferink, and
Sara Zondergeld - [slides]

- "SchoolTool: Defining Our Niche in the Open Source Architecture of
Schools", Tom Hoffman - [slides]

- "The challenges of creating open source educational software: the
Gild experience", Peter C. Rigby, Davor Cubranic, Suzanne Thompson,
Daniel M. German, and Margaret-Anne Storey - [slides]

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Morning break

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Invited talks session

- "Transfering Libre Software Development Practices to the Production
of Educational Resources: the Edukalibre Project", Jesús
M. González-Barahona, Chris Tebb, Vania Dimitrova, Diego Chaparro, Teo
Romera - [slides]

- "Development-oriented Open Source eLearning Tool Evaluation: the
Edukalibre Approach", Luca Botturi, Chris Tebb, Vania Dimitrova, Drew
Withworth, Julika Matravers, Jutta Geldermann, Isabelle Hubert - [slides]

- "What is the significance of Open Source Software for the education
and training community?", Graham Attwell - [slides]

- "E-LANE: Open Source E-learning platform, course material and methodology
for Latin America, Abelardo Pardo - [slides]

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Lunch time

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Round table about postgraduate studies on libre software

- "The MoLOS project: towards a postgraduate curriculum on libre
software", Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona - [slides]

- "An International Master Programme in Free Software in the European
Higher Education Space", David Megías, Jordi Serra, and Rafael Macau - [slides]

- "Master in Free and Open Source Software Technology", Renzo Davoli - [slides]

- Olivier Berger

- Cornelia Boldyreff

- Janis Gailis

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For paper details, have a look at the program