The University of Cape Town has, fittingly, become the first university to sign the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. Here’s to hoping that more universities will follow suit! More info on the Cape Town Open Education Declaration is available.
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
Prof. Martin Hall, who signed on behalf of the University of Cape Town, said, at the signing, that “… a university’s job is to give IP away not keep it …” which I really thought was fitting given the topics a couple of posts back.