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Philipp Schmidt (of the Peer 2 Peer University), today send to the Mozilla Open Education list, this announce for a new initiative, sponsored by Mozilla and with support of the MacArthur Foundation, that I am pleased to share Help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for using...
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On last July, I got an email from Solana Larsen of GlobalVoicesOnline announcing a collaboration with a Danish Aid Organization: she was asking for someone interested to mentor a Danish or African blogging student participating on a course about using socialmedia for activism. The course is started on 7th, September and the mentor team...
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Following to this workshop in Brussels , the promoters of that meeting started this initiative addressed to influence EU Member States in adopting more openness and transparency: the idea is to write in a collaborative and collective way a manifesto to be presented, during the the EU ministerial conference on November 19-20, 2009 where...
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In quality of member of the OER Unesco community, I am very happy to know about this publication from UNESCO. The book brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the community. From the press release: Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding thereach of education...
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The European Commissioner Reding wants European ecommerce take off: though 45% of European families got a broadband connection, there is stil much mistrust in buying online, mainly if the websites are based in foreign country. Last May for this reason they launched the portal eYou, the guide to your rights online. But there is...
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Do you know Global Voices Online Advocacy? It’s one of the non profit projects affiliated to GlobalVoices Online, devote to sustain freedom of speech against censorship around the world. You can also follow them through Twitter – Advox. Global Voices Advocacy keeps track of online censorship worldwide in daily posts, and maintains a map...
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We, as participant of the Mozilla course, are requested to produce a Blueprint as assignment. Everyone is trying to think something useful for the educational community. My proposal arise fromt the consideration of language barriers in the OER community: the english (and spanish, too) speaking people could access many educational resources, open or semi-open,...
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The discussion is going on on the list of the course also in a distributed way through twitter, the participants blogs, the wiki course. We had some troubles with the webex solutions for the live conferences (only audio, slides and chat) so I discovered the Openvideoconference. I discovered the Flatknowledge project, a wonderful idea...
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I was very happy that my application to theOpen Education promoted by the Mozilla Foundation, ccLearn and P2PU (Peer2Peer University) was accepted. The course content were organized in three areas: open license, open technology and open pedagogy. It was requested to propose a project idea to participate to the course: at the end of...
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April 23 is UNESCO World Book Day – and just because the Global Voices team loves blogs, doesn’t mean we have forgotten other forms of the written word! In fact, because we think reading literature is such an enjoyable way to learn about another culture, we have a fun challenge for all Global Voices...
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