[Opensource] Cape Town Open Education Declaration

[Roland Gesthuizen]

In South Africa, the Cape Town Open Education
Declaration<http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/>was launched which
aims to make learning and teaching materials freely
available online and improve the quality of education in schools in South
Africa and the rest of the world. The declaration has some high-profile
international signatories, including Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth, Jimmy Wales
of Wikipedia, Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons and musician Peter
Gabriel.

Quoting from this blog: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2069

"The concept of open education combines the open source aspects of allowing
free access to the source and the freedom to make changes together with a
focus on the learners that allows them to provide feedback and become more
deeply involved in the teaching process. Through this collaboration the aim
is to provide educational materials that are individually tailored to best
suit the needs of the learners."

Open Education is an interesting model and something that many of us
educators are probably already doing.

Regards Roland
-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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