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resources · Open Sourcing Education: learning and wisdom from iSummit 2007
12/9/2007 00:29 · 32 votes · 1 comment
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...
articles · Open sourcing education
22/6/2007 10:37 · 49 votes · 6 comments
Reflections on the Dubrovnik iSummit Open Ed whirlwind are now settling in. Here's the picture: there were 25 hardcore open education activists attending the track throughout, with another 25 people flowing in and out from the main summit. We spent three days in a beautiful – albeit boiling hot – building on the Aegean Sea, dreaming up ways to collaboratively build the open education...
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articles · SJ Klein Talks About One Laptop Per Child
by Kiruba Shankar · voted on 25/1/2008 18:35 · 62 votes · 4 comments
The vision of One Laptop Per Child project is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.
Note: You can listen to the podcast here.
OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia,...
articles · The Cape Town Declaration on Open Education
by Andrew Rens · voted on 25/1/2008 18:35 · 49 votes · no comments
Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education
A coalition of educators, foundations, and internet pioneers today urged governments and publishers to make publicly-funded educational materials available freely over the internet.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, launched today, is part of a dynamic effort to make learning and...
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articles · iSummit 08 is for students of Free Culture!
by Heather Ford · commented on 30/10/2007 00:14 · 52 votes · 5 comments
Next year’s iCommons Summit will introduce some exciting new programme areas in response to this year’s final brainstorming workshop with participants. The iSummit will continue to showcase some of the world’s greatest visionaries in the commons arena and the iCommons Artists in Residence programme will again act as an alternative viewpoint on discussions, but next year we will...
articles · Let's Tear Down the Top-Down Conference!
by Neeru · commented on 27/6/2007 06:22 · 49 votes · 27 comments
NOTE: A number of people talked to me about this today and these ideas are mostly "stolen" from those conversations.
Creative Commons, in some respects, is a movement about meritocracy. One in which, those who are talented are able to self-publish, gain recognition, and become valued for their talents. Without this opportunity, those from the ground are not able to shine. In...
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