Dear Moderator Please circulate this information for the benefit of forum users! Dear Professionals! I am happy to inform you that St. Philomena's College(Autonomous)Mysore in collaboration with ITfor Change, Bengaluru, is organising UGC sponsored Two-day state level workshop on "Moving towards e-Education using Open Source Software" on 30-31, August, 2013. Objectives of the workshop: * Introduce an open source software that can be used in any academic institution for website design, e-learning, content management, course delivery and as institution knowledge portal. *Develop a network of educators within the institution and also across the other institutions who will regularly create digital learning resources as part of the regular teaching process. Topics covered: *Ubuntu, OpenOfficeSuite, e-learning software-MOODLE, e-content creation and development using OSS,Open source tools for Web presence and Research activities, Open Source tools for Resource discovery and Publications. The expected outcome of the workshop : i) The workshop will enable the teaching and administrators in bringing the Open source software in their institution. This will help them to overcome the financial burden on software license, renewal cost and upgrading cost. ii) The workshop should enable the participants to acquire educational resources as well as capabilities to use various open source software applications in their regular teaching- learning process. Target participants: The teaching faculty from grduate, post graduate, research institutes and universities. Library and information science professionals and research scholars. You can visit the website: www.philosworkshoposs.weebly.com for downloading the brochure and registration form Thanking you Yours sincerely Ronald Prakash Cutinha Librarian, St.Philomena's CollegeMysore - 570015e-mail: ronald_prakash@yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.