The Free Technology Academy and Shared QA in Free Educational Materials
The emergence of Free Technologies such as Free Software and Open Standards has led to an increasing demand for skilled specialists, while few academic programmes exists to prepare people. The Free Technology Academy was set up to address this need. In this article we will in particular show the need for shared development and shared quality assurance. The authors sustain that lessons can be learnt from such shared efforts, which are particularly relevant for the advance of Open Educational Resources in general, their move from in-house produced and run educational objects towards peer produced materials and online learning networks. The FTA shows how this can be done in the field of Computer Science and invites interested participants to join the debate and participate in its multiple open futures.
By Frans Mofers, Wouter Tebbens, Hanneke Potters and Lex Bijlsma on June 30th at 19:00 in Workshop III
Rufus Pollock
Daniel Dietrich
Jason Kitcat
Sebastian Hellmann
Lucy Chambers
Hauke Gierow