Friday, November 30th, 2007...12:30 am
Cape Town Open Education Declaration (preview)
The preview Cape Town Open Education Declaration is live. The document is the result of a 2 day workshop in Cape Town that 27 people spent brainstorming, strategising, discussing, agreeing and disagreeing - and then many more weeks of the same by email. It was drafted by members of the community, for the community - as a foundation that — we hope — many initiatives, projects and people can identify with. If this reminds you of the Budapest Open Access declaration, then that is not a coincidence; we are trying to bring together a similar movement around open education.
The current version is a preview that we want to share with a broader community to get initial feedback and comments. Along with the declaration text we have compiled an extensive list of FAQs, which go into much more detail and allow more flexibility than the declaration.
Please, have a look at both, and if you disagree or you feel we are missing an important aspect, send your feedback here. If you really like it, please tell us as well (and keep you pen ready to sign up when it launches in January).
2 Comments
December 8th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Philipp,
It’s just a draft. Then again it always will be, so long as we share it nicely. Perhaps here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Education_Declaration
Well, we might be able to if it didn’t get deleted. Give me time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Neutral_point_of_view#Policy_enforcement_is_in_it.27s_interpretation
Do us a favour will ya? Could you contact Lorcan http://orweblog.oclc.org/
and ask him to contribute. We really need a librarian with a global perspective.
Would yu also ask him to take a look at this page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
and ask him if he could get these guys
http://ddc.typepad.com/
to something constructive (for a change:)
I’ll also note ‘Real Time Communications’ as it needs some mention in the draft. Sooner or later we’re going to have to give these guys something to do. http://www.accessgrid.org/community
on a regular basis.
Lastly, could you put some forums? I’ll point you at this site as an illustration. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
Before yu do could we get a spec (for an online environment, including forums) and run a competition over there. It’s getting boring to hear that “27 people spent brainstorming, strategising, discussing, agreeing and disagreeing - and then many more weeks of the same by email”, and not being able to see how they’re sharing nicely.
Please, no emails or elists. If you’d like to talk let’s keep it above the radar. I’ve set up a sandpit at Wikipedia for OED, where yo might like play occasionally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Simonfj
Merry christmas, and (hopefully) a happy 2008.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I was reading that yu are copping some flak
http://www.wikieducator.org/Declaration_on_libre_knowledge
So here’s a place where non attendees can edit if they want
http://wikieducator.org/Open_Education_Declaration
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