Cape Town Open Education Declaration

Cape Town Open Education Declaration

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is a major international statement on open access, open education and open educational resources. It emerged from a conference on open education hosted in Cape Town on 14 and 15 September 2007 by the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute. The "aim of this meeting " [being] " to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education". Individuals and organizations that sign the Declaration share its "statement of principle, a statement of strategy and a statement of commitment". [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration] ]

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* [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Text of the Declaration]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/CapeTownDeclarationAuthorsCapeTownOpenEducationDeclaration_Unlockingthepromiseofopen Audio version of the Declaration]


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