Category: events

  • My plans at Mozilla Drumbeat Festival

    Obviously this is entirely destined to fall apart as soon as I touch down in Barca and actually start bumping into people etc but at the moment this is my best attempt to schedule my days at the Festival. I actually get to Barcelona on the Tuesday afternoon so hopefully will have time to do…

  • Mary Lou Forward [mozilladrumbeat]

    Mary Lou Forward is the Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, an international organisation that has a vision of improving global education by making high quality learning materials free and open for all. Mary Lou has spent a good part of her academic career in Africa and most recently was Dean of African Studies for…

  • Q and A with Mary Lou Forward

    This is the full Q and A with Mary Lou Forward from OCWC – the edited blogpost is available at http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010 What are you going to do in Barcelona? Really looking forward to both Drumbeat and OpenEd. They are both pulling together great minds to explore what openness means in education. This is a great…

  • When Drumbeat met the School of Everything

    [originally on the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival blog] There can’t be many start-ups out there who have a mission more in tune with the aims of the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival than School of Everything. Launched in the summer of 2008 it was built around the belief that ‘everyone has something to learn and everyone has something…

  • Nathan Yergler [mozilladrumbeat]

    [this was originally published on the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival blog] Nathan Yergler is the Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons and is another person attending and contributing to both the Open Education Conference and the Drumbeat Festival (as well as hopefully sneaking in a trip to the Picasso Museum!) Nathan was kind enough to let…