User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/World Open Educational Resources Congress 2012/Notes


 * Ghent declaration: "The Ghent Declaration invites the EC to take up the current opportunities for increasing the circulation of knowledge beyond the aims of the OpenAIRE initiative. It encourages a move from open access to research and scholarship towards the creation and use of open data, open source software and open educational resources."

Main points

 * The educational value of Wikimedia projects and wikis more generally
 * Wikification of educational resources
 * Links to OER community, especially WikiEducator, incl. the Open Education Collaborative Documentation Project there
 * Role of licensing
 * Opportunity:Developing countries may leapfrog ahead of others with encrusted structures - see also World Bank OA policy
 * Dynamic documents
 * OLPC sensors & crowdsourcing
 * Learning by watching
 * interactivity
 * Life-long learning
 * Research cycle
 * Journal of the future
 * GLAM of the future
 * There is but one textbook
 * Topic Pages
 * Journal of the Future
 * Altmetrics
 * Teacher of the future
 * Reuse
 * Attribution stacking
 * http://wikieducator.org/Open_Education_Collaborative_Documentation_Project
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/bee/6933010553/in/photostream
 * http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-Courses-How-They/131677/
 * Encyclopedic knowledge vs practical skills
 * Open source,
 * open hardware
 * Citizen science
 * http://www.scidev.net/en/science-communication/opinions/engage-with-wikipedia-to-share-scientific-knowledge-1.html
 * School and university projects
 * Wikidata


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