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This temporary wiki has been created to help draft the Cape Town Open Education Declaration and to capture notes from the Open Sourcing Education meeting that happened 14 & 15 September 2007 in Cape Town, South Africa.

1 Following Up From Cape Town (active)
2 Cape Town Declaration Drafting Process (archive)
3 Open Sourcing Education Meeting - Sept 2007 (archive)
4 Useful open education documents
5 Blogs from the open sourcing education event
6 Getting started

Following Up From Cape Town (active)

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration was launched on January 22, 2008, sparking a good deal of interest and debate. The following links are designed to help us track the progress and plan next steps:

Next steps brainstorm to promote the Declaration and make it real
Open education events
Blogging and press coverage of Cape Town Declaration on del.ico.us

Of course, it's also useful to track the Declaration web site as it includes a constantly updated list of signatures.

Cape Town Declaration Drafting Process (archive)

During the last quarter of 2007, a draft Declaration was prepared by a small group of stewards from the Cape Town meeting. Links to material used during this process include:

Declaration version history page (not fully complete).
Declaration comments page used during the feedback process.
Draft Open Education FAQ eventually used on the live site.
Discussion about possible open tech declaration.

In addition to this wiki, the drafting group is also worked via a Google Group / email list. This is where most of the conversation about the draft took place.

Open Sourcing Education Meeting - Sept 2007 (archive)

A meeting called Open Sourcing Education meeting was held in Cape Town on 14 & 15 September 2007 with the aim of coming up with a declaration on open education. These links will help you find out what happened:

Read what was discussed by going to the Meeting Notes Archive.
See what happened by looking at the Flickr photos.
A list of people who attended is on the open ed bio page.

The Open Sourcing Education meeting was co-organized by the Open Society Institute, the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.

Useful open education documents

Here are some readings gathered for the Open Sourcing Education. They offer useful background to the issue of open education:

Open Sourcing Education: learning and wisdom from iSummit 2007 [1]
Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration [2]
Hewlett's A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement [3]
OECD's Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources [4]
OLCOS Roadmap 2012 [5]