Heather Ford, iCommons manager, opened the Open Education track, standing out the importance of the future modelling of the issues around open education as a key field to develop around the CC movement.

Karien Bezuidenhout and Mark Surman, from the Shuttleworth Foundation adderessed that the main outcome of the track should to build a network, and hopefully a new movement, coverging the numerous inititives around open education.

After defining Open Education in the more than 40 persons from more than 15 countries that participated, a participative methodology started the discussion around the main issues and probelmatics around Open Education. Controversial statements made people decide where to place the themes in discussion:

"Free educational materials will revolutionize education".

Who agreed with the sentence pointed out that open content is a key issue to promte new and different ways of learning. In the other hand, detractors pointed out that the central matter are not resources or materials to promote innovation in learning. There's also a need on building a sustainable models that can garantee quality/equity trade-off, accepting the fact that education and learning resourcdes is a local issue.

"Open Curriculum will never enjoy the same respect as traditional authorship respect"

Defenitively, there's a problem around the trust issue, that makes collective authorship not much competitive regarding the authorsip structure. Funding is a problem for the creation of open education resources, and there concern of the way producing them and the business model to support them. New challenges will appear once new kind of learners simply will outdate today's educational structures.

The braistorm followed generating themes of discussion around the previous discussion, and purged the issues to discuus in the next days.

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