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National Forum is Ireland’s Participant in Open Education Week Web-a-Thon
5th March 2019 @ 8:30 pm - 6th March 2019 @ 8:30 pm
The National Forum will participate in a 24-Hour Web-a-thon on 5-6 March 2019 for Open Education Week, an annual convening of the global open education movement to share ideas, new projects and to raise awareness about open education and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide.
The National Forum’s Dr Terry Maguire and Dr Catherine Cronin will front the Forum’s opening web-a-thon webinar from 20:30-20:50 on Tuesday 5 March next and will explore New open education initiatives in Ireland.
A follow-on session will run from 21:30-21:50 and will explore themes for the upcoming Open Educational Resources Conference 2019 which takes place in NUI Galway, Ireland on 10-11 April. The conference is sponsored by the National Forum.
The National Forum will be part of the web-a-thon’s network of speakers from Algeria, Nigeria, Argentina, South Africa, Italy, Chile, United Kingdom, Afghanistan, United States, Ireland, Sweden, Canada and Poland who will present their open education projects.
All webinar sessions will be in: https://creativecommons.org/2019/02/28/open-education-week-webathon/
The 2019 web-a-thon is being organised by the Creative Commons (CC) Open Education Platform and CC Poland.