IV Congress of CiberSociety 2009. Analog crisis, digital future

Topic A - Education

Work Team A-6: Open educational resources

Communications

Initial questions

In the the field of education and the resources educational open, of which is been talking today?

Which will be his evolution in front of the Website 2.0 and his transition to the Website 3.0?

Work Group description

This working group will center his attention in generating an analysis space and discussion on the state of the art, technologies vanguardistas and the future that him waiting to open"" educational Resources or abbreviating special regime for self-employed workers, within the Website 2.0 and the Website 3.0, analyzing that characteristics should have for this transition, revising standards of interoperatibilidad, integration, use, storage, etc.

To do so is done necessary that in a joint way is built the definition of this end, to the light of what really this should mean in the society of the knowledge, more even in the cybersociety of the knowledge.

The reason that should motivate to a real conception "open"educational Resources, lies in multiple definitions that to Free" ends "and to "Open" nowadays have, whether it is for translation effects of a language to another or for the interpretation that organizations in the Internet have given him (OSI - Open Source Initiative, FSF - Free Software Foundation, CC - Creative Commons, etc.

Is sought to analyze advantages that for the education has brought and offers him at this moment in time the special regime for self-employed workers and to seek the way in which these advantages are made good use even mās. On the other hand want to analyze existing disadvantages and as acting on them to decrease his impact.

The central axis of discussions will be the development of the special regime for self-employed workers, but seen from the free repository and as these are dinamizadores of the education in and l twenty-first CENTURY, invite to analyze the effect that in the education have had, seeing cases as that one of wikipedia and his effect in the world encyclopedias and many examples more.

Of this topic likewise consider important to revise and to discuss the model as these special regime for self-employed workers are produced "Knowledge colaborativo", in which many people, of all parts of the world, of different cultures, with heterogeneous educational levels, are associated to design, building and to improve the special regime for self-employed workers.

Topics will be dealt with within spaces of discussion, debate analysis and to do so are posed following aims on which turned discussions and reflections of the group:


  • Establishing the real meaning of Educational Resources Open special regime for self-employed workers.
  • Establishing and to specify advantages and possible disadvantages of the use of the special regime for self-employed workers.
  • Describing factors and/or stages that dynamize and they speed up the development of the special regime for self-employed workers, as well as which prevent that development or it retrazan.
  • Analyzing and to socialize the impact that nowadays and towards future will have the development of the special regime for self-employed workers in the existing society, in particular in the education.
  • Analyzing and to discuss the required standardization so that a special regime for self-employed workers is opened and the way of centralizing these products of the knowledge in digital repositories.