Academic Advisory Committee

Introduction

Encouraging a community of like minded educational experts in the development and dissemination of Open Source educational opportunities - supporting global and local employability skills and the proliferation of open technological resources.

Scope, Mandate and Activities

• Report to and liaise with LPI Executive Director (“ED”) to encourage the spawning of educational, skills and training opportunities from the activities of this committee
• Advising LPI on certification programs and content (new and current) including industry 4.0 topics
  
• Help organise lobbying to gain acceptance with national and local governments, education authorities, national qualification frameworks,international (such as European) qualification frameworks, etc.
  
• Create a culture where we can encourage others to become mutual lobbyists to government
  
• Equip activists to engage with external stakeholders
  
• Creation of an open source education advocacy knowledge base from a global perspective, containing: good practice
  
• Compendium of international/national official educational initiatives (political)
  
• Compendium of international/national educational initiatives (economical)
  
• What is the equivalent of QCF/Register/Apprenticeship/Points around the world?
  
• Contain a SWOT analysis of each stakeholder
  
• Filling the gaps of how to train
  
• Clarify and prioritize learning objectives for various certifications
  
• Training Materials, Lab Resources, Train The Trainer, Language / Translation
  
• Taking into account the level of digitization of different school systems
  
• Advisory committee, requires a global viewpoint and engagement
  
• Standardisation of terminology so all parties understand and speak common terminology
  
• Helping non-participating nations develop their Linux education programmes
  
• Translating experiences from one region to other
  
• Identification of conferences, seminars, events, unconferences, organisations to affiliate with, partake, lead or attend
  
• Working with Allies, Advocacy
  
  • WorldSkills
    
  • Vendors - Cisco / NDG
    
  • Awarding Bodies in different nations
    
  • Sector Skills Councils
    
  • Creating own community of skills development
    
  • Representation on other committees
    

Membership list

Sponsor: Jon Hall, US
Chair: Thomas Michels, DE
Core Memebers:

• G Matthew Rice, CA
  
• Kevin Glendenning, CA
  
• Fabian Thorns, DE
  
• Stephen Murphy, UK
  
• Aaron Saxton, UK
  
• Andrew Smith, UK
  
• Klaus Suthe, DE
  
• Geraldine Pastor, DE
  
• Siegfried Wenzler, DE
  
• Erwin Boonk, NL
  
• Sandor Strohmayer, US
  
• Àngel Garcia, SP
  
• Cesar Brod, BR
  
• Sam Coleman
  
• Stuart Keroff
  

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Sub-committees

• Educational Materials Development Group - leader - Steve Murphy
• Security Essentials Development Group - leader - Thomas Michels

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