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Paola (15)
Lima, Peru

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member since:   17/6/2007
birth date:   16/10/1978
about:   BSc, MSc, Diplome d'Ingenieur.

Website:   http://www.culturalibre.info/
languages:   English | French | Spanish
nodes:   OER Case Study Project
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  articles · OERs: Peru
18/6/2007 03:23 · 17 votes · no comments

The Peruvian system of public education provides three distinct levels of instruction:

- Initial - Three years (ages 3-5)
- Primary - Six years (ages 6-11)
- Secondary - Five years (ages 12-16)

However, not every child has access to all three levels of education. Especially for children living in remote villages, the closest school may be so far away that attendance is not...

articles · Propagating the Meme
17/6/2007 20:33 · 28 votes · 1 comment

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,...

   
 
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  articles · Collaborating on Open Education
18/6/2007 00:56 · no comments

Participants in this session have been invited to develop a vision for improved collaboration amongst people working on open educational materials, with discussion of how best to build on the work of others.

This was the last session, how all the sessions we work in small groups about our expectations for the next year about open education the big opportunity that everyone can...

articles · Open Education Track: Overview
17/6/2007 23:56 · no comments

Thanks to everybody to participate on the open education track. We know about open education in Australia, South Africa, US, Chile...

I am glad to know that Open Education movement start to become a universal movement. The next step, how to scale the movement?...We never forget our cultural diversity, I remember during a workshop more than 10 differents ways to say book in many...

   
 
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  articles · Translating the Commons: Negotiating Openness and Difference
by Chris Salzberg · voted on 31/7/2008 12:33 · 20 votes · 1 comment

Open content, according to the largest open content project Wikipedia, describes "any kind of creative work published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying," by anyone and not just by a single organization or individual. With the explosive growth in open content over recent years, organizations such as Creative Commons have invested a great deal of energy in "cultivating...

articles · Let's Tear Down the Top-Down Conference!
by Neeru · voted on 20/6/2007 13:39 · 49 votes · 27 comments

NOTE: A number of people talked to me about this today and these ideas are mostly "stolen" from those conversations.

Creative Commons, in some respects, is a movement about meritocracy. One in which, those who are talented are able to self-publish, gain recognition, and become valued for their talents. Without this opportunity, those from the ground are not able to shine. In...

   
 
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  nodes · OER Case Study Project
by Cynthia Jimes · commented on 20/7/2007 12:48 · 15 votes · 2 comments

The case study project seeks to develop an internal analysis and knowledge-sharing template as a means to encourage the sustainability of the open educational content movement.

articles · Let's Tear Down the Top-Down Conference!
by Neeru · commented on 20/6/2007 13:41 · 49 votes · 27 comments

NOTE: A number of people talked to me about this today and these ideas are mostly "stolen" from those conversations.

Creative Commons, in some respects, is a movement about meritocracy. One in which, those who are talented are able to self-publish, gain recognition, and become valued for their talents. Without this opportunity, those from the ground are not able to shine. In...

   
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