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There’s a hilarious spoof of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education on the iCommons listserv. Gave me a good laugh, and definitely worth a read.
I say hilarious, because the spoof really is funny. However, the spoof is also deeply disappointing because its subtext is a completely irrational, anti-sustainability mindset that is the single biggest threat to the success of the open education movement.
More PR happening already today… All Africa is running a story in which the chairman of an SA publishers’ association says, “If (publishers) want to, we can’t stop them from participating, but we would discourage the Shuttleworth approach.” Computing SA says we’re trying to “transform education” I’ll add to this list throughout the day…
Lots of great PR for the launch of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education today! First off, lots of people carried the Press Release, including the The Sun Herald, Linux Magazine, Street Insider, EarthTimes, Yahoo!, and of course the Soros and Shuttleworth Foundations. Other coverage includes: Jimmy and Rich had an op-ed in the … Read more