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This report summarizes learning and wisdom from the education track at 2007 iSummit, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Organized annually by iCommons, the summit serves as a gathering of people from the global Creative Commons movement. This was the first year that there was a full track dedicated to open education.
Describing the conversation about open education in Dubrovnik, the report says:
it is clear that these ideas offer huge potential to transform and improve education. At the simplest level, open sourcing education can provide top quality textbooks, courseware and learning aids to millions of people who have limited access to educational materials today. There is also tremendous potential for innovation in education, as well as improving the quality of materials we use for learning. Similar to open source software, educators who translate MIT Open Courseware into Chinese may improve these materials along the way, in turn sharing these improvements for others to use. And, ultimately, if learning materials of all sorts are open, there is an opportunity to put learners at the centres of this collaborative value creation: with students playfully adapting, remixing and resharing materials for others as a part of the learning process. There is a movement afoot here, and it is a movement with an aim no less than making learning accessible and adaptable for all.
However, the report is far from pure boosterism for open education. It also warns that there are critical roadblocks in areas like community building, licensing, reaching out to policymakers and including a diversity educators, authors and activists from around the world. Unless it can get past these roadblocks, the movement has little chance of making an impact. tags: Canada education more
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