The Cape Town Open Education Declaration launched one week ago today and has already received over 1,000 individual signatures and over 80 institutional signatures. The CTD News page links to dozens and dozens of news and blog stories covering the Declaration, published everywhere from the US to Taiwan to Pakistan to the UK to Thailand to Guyana to Australia to South Africa. Even if you don’t agree with the specific wording of the declaration, you can’t deny that it has been a huge catalyst for getting the word out about open education…
About the Author
To learn more about David Wiley, visit http://davidwiley.org/. David also leads the Access to Knowledge Initiative in Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education.
Recent Publications
- Overcoming the Limitations of Learning Objects
- Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching
- The Four R?s of Openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for Open Educational Resources
- Psychologism and American Instructional Technology
- The Open High School of Utah: Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Schools
- Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
- Open Source, Openness, and Higher Education
- Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education
- Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network
- Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way
- The Creation and Use of Open Educational Resources in Christian Higher Education
- A Unified Design Framework for Learning Objects and Educational Discourse
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