I just read about the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. It’s a bit in depth but can be simplified.
The Facebook group simplifies it fairly well so I wont try to do it better:
[The Declaration] is designed to echo the disruptive effect that open source had on the proprietary software world by opening up the development and distribution of educational materials.” The declaration calls for more educational materials to be open sourced and freely shared (like MIT did), and says that “all taxpayer-funded educational resources should be open.
That makes sense to me. Let knowledge be freely available to those who need it. Much like opensource software. Brilliant concept.
Who has initiated this Declaration? None other than Mark Shuttleworth himself. The Shuttleworth foundation is behind the Declaration.
It is a global attempt to make educational resources freely available based on an opensource concept. Why the name? Simple, the Shuttleworth Foundation is headquartered in Cape Town.
From the Declaration:
This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint.
Get on over to the site and sign the Declaration as an individual or sign it as an organisation.
Once you’ve signed be sure to head over to the Facebook group to keep up with the project and it’s developments.
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January 9th, 2011 at 3:44 am
Not going to be dishonest I just want to get a backlink from you