Hi all,

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) is participating in an international project "SELF: Science, Education and Learning in Freedom", wherein we are developing an E-learning Platform. It has been planned by all the partners that the SELF Platform will be launched simultaneously all over the world for the community. In India we have scheduled the official launch of the SELF Platform on September 7, 2007 (3-6 pm), in some countries it is happening on 5th and 6th.

On this occassion, we cordially invite you to participate in the official launch of an E-learning Platform developed by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR).

Program Schedule :

3:00 - 3:30 Welcome Address Prof. Arvind Kumar Centre Director Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education

3:30 - 4:00 SELF Platform Launch Prof. Shobo Bhattacharya Director Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research

4:00 - 4:30 Keynote Address on FOSS & Collaborative Culture Prof. D. B. Phatak Subharao M. Nilekani Chiar Professor Kanwal Rekhi Institute of Information Technology Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

4:30 - 5:00 Special lecture on Semantic Web and Collaborative E-learning Prof. G. Sivakumar Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering Department Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

5:00 -5:30 Live Demonstration of the SELF Platform SELF Platform Development Team Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education

5:30 - 6:00 Vote of Thanks & High Tea

Venue:

Shri V. G. Kulkarni Auditorium Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai 88

RSVP: self@hbcse.tifr.res.in hbcse@selfproject.eu 25555242/25554712 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

About the SELF Project: http://www.selfproject.eu

SELF: Science, Education and Learning in Freedom

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR is participating in an European Commission funded project on Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF) from July 1, 2006 to July 2008. The SELF platform is initiated by an international consortium of seven partners --- three universities: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (India); and four non-profit organisations active as Free Software advocates: Internet Society (Netherlands), Free Software Foundation Europe (in all European countries), Internet Society (Bulgaria) and Fundación Via Libre (Argentina). The SELF project aims to provide a platform for the collaborative sharing and creation of open educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards.

About the SELF Platform: http://www.slefplatform.eu

Homi Bhabha Centre's gnowledge lab developed the SELF Platform, a graphical web based multi-lingual platform for collaborative authoring of courses and lessons, to organize them and distribute them widely to various educational institutes all over the world. The SELF Platform comprises mainly of a knowledge management application for authors, and instructors. During the course of time, it will also have course delivery system for learners. The SELF Platform conforms with the e-learning standards such as LOM, SCORM. The SELF Platform comprises of modules for authors, instructors, students. The SELF Platform will provide information, educational and training materials in the form of course material, e-books, instructional and educational videos, manuals, etc. The platform caters to the target groups such as---universities and schools, training organisations, publishers, industrial manufacturers, free software communities, government bodies, public and non-profit organisations, private organisations. The SELF Platform would serve as providing a central access for educational materials alongwith a community participation in a multilingual environment.

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You all are welcome.

Thank you.

Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/