Does school have as its goal the preservation of existing social relationships or inclusion and access to knowledge to “work out” full citizenship? School, with all its flaws, is one of the last occasions for social aggregation: the obligation to attend until the age of 16 does not allow families to exercise the choice not to have their children study. Sending a child to school has a cost for families, but is an investment that is made, sometimes with great…
There is a thread that starts from the sharing of educational reources (oer), passes through the open online courses (OpenCourseWare) and get up to the MOOC. MOOC means Massive Online Open Courses, often offered by large and prestigious universities for free. The first experiments of open online course and with large numbers of students go back into 2008 (# cck08) and were focused on the interaction amongs online students. One of the interesting aspects was the exploration of models for online education based on multiple…
[:en]The School of Open has launched! Take a free online course on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open culture, open video formats, and more at http://schoolofopen.org/. Especially check out this course:Get a CC license. Put it on your website. Read more about the launch athttp://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.[:]