Report on the Free Technology Academy experience Franco Iacomella Wouter Tebbens

1. FTA – Towards a Master
Programme on Free Software
fOSSa Conference - November 2010 - Grenoble
Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute)
Franco Iacomella (Free Knowledge Institute)

2. Introduction
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The FTA aims to set up an International Master
Programme on Free Technologies
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Freedom and Cooperation:
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Distance Learning through a Virtual Campus : 100%
free / libre / open source technology.
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All course materials are published as free educational
materials (OER).
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All courses are about concepts and vendor-independent,
free technologies (FS, OS).
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Creation of an international partnership for recognition
of courses and sharing of the FTA programme and network.

4. Consortium Partner
Free Knowledge Institute (International)
http://freeknowledge.eu/

5. Consortium Partner
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
http://uoc.edu/

6. Consortium Partner
Open Universiteit Nederland (Netherlands)
http://ou.nl/

7. Consortium Partner
University of Agder (Norway)
http://uia.no/

8. Associate Partner
Seed (Switzerland)
http://seedlearn.org/

9. Associate Partner
P2P Foundation (International)
http://p2pfoundation.net/

10. Associate Partner
Gleducar NGO (Argentina)
http://gleducar.org.ar/

11. Associate Partner
Free Software Foundation (USA)
http://fsf.org/

12. COURSES

13. Courses
The concepts of Free Software and
Open Standards

14. Courses
GNU/Linux Basic

15. Courses
GNU/Linux Advanced

16. Courses
Free Software Utilities

17. Courses
Network Technologies

18. Courses
Web applications development

19. Courses
Software development

20. Courses
Implementation of Free Software and
Case Studies

21. Courses
Legal aspects of the Information
Society

22. Courses
Software Architecture

23. Courses
Assessment of FS Projects (Quality
Metrics)

24. Courses
Free Software in Public
administrations

25. Courses
Software Engineering in Free
Software environments

26. Drafting the master programme
Concepts of FS GNU/Linux Basic Implementation + CS
Nw + OS Sw Dev IS Mgt TBD
GNU/Linux Adv Web App Dev Econ. Aspects Peer Production
Open Networks Sw Dev Legal Aspects FS in Education
FS Databases Sw Architecture FS utilities
Sw Eng in FS FS in Public Ad. RT Automation
Quality Metrics Mobile Dev
Mgt of FS proj. Mgt of FS proj. Open Learn Tech
Final Project

27. Educational methodology
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Tutor
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Course book
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13 weeks
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Asynchronous
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Activities
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Continuous
assessments
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Guest Lectures

28. FTA Certificate

29. Course materials
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All FTA materials are published openly and under free
licenses:
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Introduction to Free Software
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GNU/Linux Advanced Administration
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Open Networks
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Introduction to Web applications development
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Economic aspects and business models of Free Software
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Legal Aspects of the Information Society
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Introduction to Software development
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URL: http://ftacademy.org/materials

30. FTA course books - example

31. Ecosystem

32. Final words
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We seek a sustainable model for OER: “fully Free
Knowledge” model sustained by educational services
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More universities are welcome to join in the
project!
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Join us to improve, develop and/or translate
course materials and extend the curriculum
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Enroll at http://ftacademy.org/ (Early Bird
discount until November 15th!)

34. - Wouter Tebbens -
- Franco Iacomella -
- Free Knowledge Institute -
- wouter@freeknowledge.eu -
- franco@freeknowledge.eu -
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