Free Technology Academy
The Free Technology Academy will launch the second run of its online courses on March 26 including courses in “Web applications development”, “Economic models” and “Software development”. Register now online to have the benefit of the discounts at http://ftacademy.org/registration-form. iCommons Board member Prof. Ronaldo Lemos (Center for Technology & Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, and Creative Commons International) is a member of the FTA’s Scientific Council.
The FTA is a consortium formed by the Open University of Catalonia (Spain), the Open University of the Netherlands and University of Agder (Norway) and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI). The courses will be taught completely online in a virtual campus based on the Campus Project interoperability framework.
Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning materials will be freely available through the Internet. The use of Free Software is rapidly expanding in governmental and private organisations. However, still only a limited number of ICT professionals, teachers and decision makers have sufficient knowledge and expertise in these new fields. The Free Technology Academy aims to address this gap by providing high level courses that fit into larger Master Programmes at the participating universities.
