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.[1] 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".[2]
The declaration was released officially[3] on January 22, 2008.
As of January 2014, over 2,400 individuals and 250 organisations (including the Wikimedia Foundation[4]) have signed the declaration.[5]
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- ^ "OLCOS and the Cape Town Open Education Declaration". OLCOS. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Cape Town Open Education Declaration
- ^ Wales, Jimmy; Baraniuk, Rich (22 January 2008). "Bringing open resources to textbooks and teaching". The San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017.
Late last year in Cape Town, we joined delegates from around the world as we reached a consensus on both the ideals and approaches to Open Education and committed them in the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, which was released officially today.
- ^ wmf:Minutes/2007-12-11
- ^ "View Signatures". The Cape Town Open Education Declaration. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
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