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The Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge

The Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge

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[:en]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 Firefox add-ons to support learning online, as part of the the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation with support from the MacArthur…

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Help European govts embrace Web 2.0

Help European govts embrace Web 2.0

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[:en]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 they will define the main priorities of e-government in the next three years. The manifesto about public service 2.0 is under construction and your help in…

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Open Education Resources: Conversation in Cyberspace

Open Education Resources: Conversation in Cyberspace

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[:en]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 and improving its quality. Traditional solutionswill not suffice, especially in the context of today’s knowledgeintensive societies. Open Educational Resources offer one solution for extending learning opportunities….

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European ecommerce: for many but not for all

European ecommerce: for many but not for all

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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 a small problem: the website is only in 4 languages: English, French, German and Bulgarian (?) The small website is only a list of faqs pointing…

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Mozilla Open Education Course – 2

Mozilla Open Education Course – 2

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[:en] 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 of open source publishing: “Flat World would become a publisher—commission, edit, and peer review the books—but it would give its titles away free on the…

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Mozilla Open Education Course – 3 – My Blueprint

Mozilla Open Education Course – 3 – My Blueprint

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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, but for italian language (and I suppose also for many other languages in the world) things are very different.So, in my opinion the question is, how we…

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Mozilla Open Education Course – 1

Mozilla Open Education Course – 1

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[:en] 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 course, we have to prepare a blueprint related to the proposed idea. Here the list of participant: for each of us, a bref description and…

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Global Voices Book Challenge

Global Voices Book Challenge

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[:en] 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 contributors and readers, and bloggers everywhere. The Global Voices Book Challenge is as follows: Read a book during the next month from a country whose…

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Open mind and 2.0, egov receipt (for Europe too)

Open mind and 2.0, egov receipt (for Europe too)

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[:en]Some egovernment experts, organized a workshop in Brussels, on March 16th, as they thought that distance is increasing between what it’s possible using web2.0 and what the governments mean for using ICT for Innovation and presenting some project already running.The workshop Public services 2.0: How to implement and promote user-driven open innovation in public services was possible thanks to private actors: the only institutional presence was Mechthild Rohen (Head of Unit, EC DG INFSO eGov). The fonctionnary resumed initiatives on…

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Let’s support Global Voices Advocacy!

Let’s support Global Voices Advocacy!

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[:en] 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 of web 2.0 censorship. There are also guides like Anoymous Blogging with WordPress & Tor or Blogging for a Cause that many bloggers appreciate. As…

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