There are the one key word to define the session Propagating the Meme - Sharing Practices to Scale Open Education: "Interactive". This afternoon we work in groups to talk about how to scale the open education movement. I can only mention many relevant words, gender equality, creativity, innovation, second life, access, global cooperation, listening to the need, cultural diversity, local initiatives...the topic is still complex, but we can manage it with many useful tools and sharing experiences. Thanks to Gunner (AspirationTech.org) for each interesting session, we can make contacts, discuss and develop a networking...people interested in open education.

I would like to comment about a initiative from Latin America: Cybertesis.NET

Cybertesis.NET is a powerful tool of consultation that allows to make simultaneous searches through a single Web interface, and to recuperate more than 27.000 full text theses stored in 27 different servers and university repositories, by means of the use of OAI protocol (Open Archives Initiative)

Each university is responsible of the production, preservation and diffusion of its theses.

The Cybertesis program is the result of a project of cooperation between the Université de Montréal, the Université de Lyon2, the University of Chile and 32 universities of Europe, Africa, Chile and Peru.

The peruvian portal is http://www.cybertesis.edu.pe which is a initiative of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM).

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