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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Federica, the first Italian higher education project for OER

Federica, the first Italian higher education project for OER

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Federica , a comprehensive e-learning portal established in 2007 at Federico II University in Naples, Italy, is launching its release 2.0 on Friday March 13th, 2009, «Our public University mission”-  explained Guido Trombetta, Federico II President  ”convinced us to avoid any password or other limitations to knowledge access. Each individual can access the entire scientific and education content provided on Federica   to study and research, to deepen his/her own learning or professional interests. » After five years of research and…

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the internet librarian

the internet librarian

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[:it]Universal online access to all knowledge may not be “a goal that is going to be finished in our lifetime,” says Mr Kahle. “But if you pick a goal far enough out, people can align to it. I am not interested in building an empire. Our idea is to build the future.” [Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist] [:]