{"id":58,"date":"2008-01-19T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/58"},"modified":"2008-01-19T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T20:10:42","slug":"capetown-declaration-official-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/58","title":{"rendered":"Capetown declaration official launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Ahrash Bissell, Executive Director of ccLearn, sent this message out about the recently issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetowndeclaration.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capetown declaration<\/a> on OER:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear friends and colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may already know that I have  been working with the Shuttleworth Foundation, Wikimedia and other organizations  to draft and release this Declaration on the future of open education:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetowndeclaration.org\/\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.capetowndeclaration.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Declaration is  a rallying point for people who want to accelerate the growth of innovative,  collaborative approaches to learning. We&#8217;re asking people to sign on to the  Declaration online:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetowndeclaration.org\/sign-declaration\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.capetowndeclaration.org\/sign-declaration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The  Declaration officially launches next Tuesday (Jan 22), and we are hoping to have  as many people as possible indicating their support. Obviously, you should only  sign it if you agree with it! But speaking from a totally biased perspective,  the ideas within are highly compelling, and the potential positive impacts on  education of all levels and forms are likely to be substantial. This is the  first time that the various people and organizations working on &#8220;opening up&#8221;  educational materials and practices have made a joint statement that establishes  some fundamental principles driving the movement. I certainly hope you will join  in, regardless of your particular relationship to openness and formal education.<\/p>\n<p>I am always happy to discuss further anything related to this effort or  open education generally. Please do pass this along to anyone else who might be  interested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfanhour.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/criticizing-cape-town-declaration.html\" target=\"_blank\">Others<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.opencontent.org\/?s=capetown\" target=\"_blank\">have blogged<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/commonspace.typepad.com\/commonspace\/2007\/12\/cape-town-decla.html\" target=\"_blank\">about <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/learnonline.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/11\/ahrash-bissell-picks-me-up-where-the-cape-town-declaration-let-me-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">this extensively already<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been waiting to comment until I had a little more time. Stay tuned for my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read this and decided whether to add your signature, now is a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Ahrash Bissell, Executive Director of ccLearn, sent this message out about the recently issued Capetown declaration on OER: Dear friends and colleagues, Some of you may already know that I have been working with the Shuttleworth Foundation, Wikimedia and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}