Knowledge Media Lab: Teaching & Learning Commons WebEvent 2

Just recieved this via email and thought I'd share. Have a wonderful evening. -Mechelle : )

Advocates of open education resources, open source development, and open knowledge building all hope—even promise—to use and build on information in the public domain. They do so in order to equalize access to information and educational opportunities for learners all over the world. Sponsors and individuals also build collaborative communities to create knowledge, objects and information for the public good, using information technology to spread their tools and resources widely. With such high expectations, we must ask:

• Is it working? How do we know? When will we know?
• Is the "open education movement" filled with overwhelming optimism?
• Is the movement changing the way we learn and how knowledge and resources are created, or is open education another form of patronage, whereby knowledge and information travel in one direction?