Category: shuttleworthfoundation
Reconsidering ‘open’
What is open philanthropy?
Cape Town Declaration, coming soon to an inbox near you
With my plane now somewhere over Eastern Ontario, I’ve little time to write about last week’s amazing meetings in Cape Town. Let me just report this: 30 amazing brains from universities, government ministries and foundations gathered to come up with a statement to rally and accelerate the open education movement. Drawing on a tremendous amount of laughter, kindness and wisdom, we came up with the raw material for a declaration that we hope many hundreds (thousands?) of other people and organizations will sign. I will be crafting this with the help of people from the New South Wales Dept of Education, Creative Commons, Macquarie University and Utah’s Centre for Open and Sustainable Learning over the coming weeks. More Cape Town Declaration, coming soon to an inbox near you
The evolution of learning
This is an article that Lisa Petrides’ and I wrote for the iCommons Annual, which was released back in June. It’s up on line as a part of the PDF for the whole book. But, I thought it would be nice to also have it up in text form, so I am posting it here: More The evolution of learning
Open education at Ubuntu Live
Yesterday I presented on ‘Open Sourcing Education in South Africa’ at the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland. The main idea was to start making links between that Shuttleworth Foundation and the Ubuntu community. I also wanted to test out some language from the Foundation’s emerging theory of change. Some quick learnings: More Open education at Ubuntu Live
Undefended territory
My favourite Ubuntu Live slide so far was Stephen O’Grady‘s Sun Tzu quote: “You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.” More Undefended territory
Open sourcing education
Reflections on the Dubrovnik iSummit Open Ed whirlwind are now settling in. Here’s the picture: there were 25 hardcore open education activists attending the track throughout, with another 25 people flowing in and out from the main summit. We spent three days in a beautiful – albeit boiling hot – building on the Aegean Sea, dreaming up ways to collaboratively build the open education future. More Open sourcing education
A movement is afoot
Dubrovnik, Croatia More A movement is afoot
Psyched for iCommons education track
It’s great to finally be in Dubrovnik. I am ready for what promises to
be a great iSummit, including an amazing track specifically on open
source education. Gunner’s most recent blurb on the track is … More Psyched for iCommons education track